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1960: Some 14 years after escaping from a prison camp, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was captured by Israeli intelligence agents near Buenos Aires; he was later taken to Israel, where he was tried, convicted, and executed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the grid will collapse if the government fully implements the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, decision that schools, hospitals and police stations be exempted from load shedding.
Ramaphosa said their appeal of the judgment was not based on arrogance, but on the advice of engineers that they cannot afford to stop implementing power cuts in the way they are doing it now. He said the engineers had told him that load shedding was implemented to avoid the collapse of the grid. The view of the government was also about being practical about the decision of the High Court.
Ramaphosa, who was answering oral questions in Parliament on Thursday, said while they noted the judgment they needed to deal with the reality of reducing the severity of load shedding.