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NCOP deputy chairperson Sylvia Lucas.
NCOP deputy chairperson Sylvia Lucas.
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Load shedding "isn't the end of the world", said the ANC's Sylvia Lucas during the debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (SONA).

Lucas is also the deputy chairperson of the National Council of Provinces.

Speaking in Afrikaans, Lucas said you couldn't  deny another’s reality when they told you that they lived underneath a tree during apartheid, but now had an erf with water and access to electricity.

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