On the 9th, South African President Ramafusa announced in Cape Town, the legislative capital, that South Africa was in a state of disaster, which took effect immediately to deal with the power crisis and its impact. Ramafosa said in his 2023 State of the Union address at the Town Hall of Cape Town that night that the National Disaster Management Center identified the energy crisis and its impact as a disaster. He said that under the state of national disaster, it will be able to provide practical measures to support enterprises in the food production, storage and retail supply chain, and to prevent key infrastructure such as hospitals from power failure. Ramafosa said that he would appoint a power minister to be fully responsible for supervising all efforts to deal with the power crisis. "At present, the most urgent task for South Africa is to significantly reduce the duration of power outages in the coming months and try to end the power outages completely." South Africa has experienced a serious power supply crisis since 2022. In the near future, the power shortage has further intensified, with more than 8 hours of power failure in a day at the worst. (Xinhua News Agency)