{"id":1201612,"date":"2022-01-09T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201612"},"modified":"2022-01-09T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:04:20","slug":"power-goes-out-during-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-speech-at-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/power-goes-out-during-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-speech-at-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Goes Out During South African President Cyril Ramaphosa&#039;s Speech at Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpower-goes-out-during-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-speech-at-fundraiser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1208282140-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The power went out Saturday night as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed a gala fundraising dinner for his ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), causing embarrassment to the government and forcing his evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has suffered from persistent power shortages in the past 15 years, thanks to poor management and the appointment of ruling party cronies to run state utilities, as engineers have been forced out through affirmative action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Local news site Independent Online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/power-outage-at-anc-gala-dinner-during-ramaphosas-speech-but-leaders-say-its-no-security-threat-78bba1fc-9b5b-4427-b071-43a81329c5eb?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1641608671\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The power outage occurred at about 9pm while Ramaphosa was addressing guests at a gala dinner meant to raise funds as part of the ANC\u2019s 110th year anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers, party officials, ministers and business leaders who had paid hundreds of thousands of Rands to dine with ANC leaders at the Protea Ranch Hotel were left embarrassed as the lights went out while Ramaphosa was on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u2019s presidential bodyguards, who were quietly sitting among the diners, sprung up and surrounded him at the podium when the lights went out.<\/p>\n<p>The president was allowed to finish his speech with the help of light beams from TV news broadcasters. He later joked about the need to fix the country\u2019s power issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Attendees attempted to gloss over the outage by singing party songs. Some on social media blamed a faction called the Radial Economic Transformation (RET) group, linking them (without evidence) to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2022\/01\/04\/south-african-officials-accused-of-scapegoating-poor-black-man-for-parliament-fire\/\">fire<\/a> in Parliament and vandalism at South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Power outage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ANC110?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ANC110<\/a> is proof enough that all treasonous acts at power stations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ParliamentFire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ParliamentFire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConCourtSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ConCourtSA<\/a> attacks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JulyUnrest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JulyUnrest<\/a> was planned sabotage by the corrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RETForce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RETForce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s high time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrilRamaphosa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CyrilRamaphosa<\/a> arrest one RET leader and nip this in the bud. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qXWawtY0vz\">pic.twitter.com\/qXWawtY0vz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uncle Sammy\ud83c\uddff (@MashSammy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MashSammy\/status\/1479675111561175041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Local authorities said that there had been no area-wide power outage due to \u201cload shedding,\u201d a process of planned outages designed to conserve scarce resources.<\/p>\n<p>Some speculated that there may have been sabotage, given the growing factionalism in the ANC, and the president\u2019s open criticism of the radical ANC Youth League, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/watch-cyril-ramaphosa-calls-recent-anc-youth-league-an-embarrassment-a1ef6260-c186-4c17-aa68-424bd5f202d7\">called<\/a> an \u201cembarrassment\u201d in a speech on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\"><em>How Not to Be a Sh!thole Country: Lessons from South Africa<\/em><\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power went out Saturday night as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed a gala fundraising dinner for his ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), causing embarrassment to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}