# Ramaphosa launches a government-business partnership on electricity, logistics and crime

Date: 2023

## The fact

In 2023, at a moment of severe load-shedding, port failure and crime, [Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) launched a government-business partnership with CEOs on electricity, freight and security. Phase 3 launched in August 2026.

## Context

Stage-6 sat as parent. Neighbouring load-shedding end is a child. He did not sit as every CEO.

Load-shedding 2023 is the parent crisis. Load-shedding end 2025 is a child.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. SAnews / allAfrica records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2023 partnership launch, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later investment coefficient from that month, or that crime thereby ended.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Business CEOs joined. Line ministers implement.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Ramaphosa launches a government-business partnership on electricity, logistics and crime, not a later speech about Ramaphosa launches a government-business partnership on electricity, logistics and crime.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Ramaphosa launches a government-business partnership on electricity, logistics and crime on 2023-01-27 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Ramaphosa launches a government-business partnership on electricity, logistics and crime into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched. Business CEOs joined. Line ministers implement. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://allafrica.com/stories/202608240436.html
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-business-2023