Increased rolling blackouts due to planned and unplanned maintenance of neglected plants plummet South Africa into stage 6 loadshedding. The heart of the unplanned capacity loss factors is the lack of funds to address them. Monies from National Treasury continue to be used to fund Independent Power Producers. The politicisation of baseload power generation hinders the Minister of Electricity's ability to execute sound technical decisions that will restore coal powered generation. The government needs to review IPP contracts which are preventing the Minister of Electricity from executing his mandate. Depolitcise power generation and let the work begin to stabilise Eskom's baseload power generation.