The appointment of a dedicated Minister of Electricity was meant to ensure there was an individual to focus full-time on ending loadshedding and ensuring that the widely consulted Energy Action Plan (EAP) was implemented without delay. Since the appointment, however, there have been power struggles over Ministerial powers, mixed messages over the EAP and general confusion over who is actually in charge of what. If it doesn’t settle soon, the loadshedding outlook will become even more dire than it already is.