President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that a new minister of energy will be appointed as a new measure to deal with energy crisis in his state of the national address (SONA) 2023. With reference to the article above, Bloomberg has predicted that that South Africa is likely to go to recession.

1.1 Explain how the political environment can have both negative and positive contributions to the business practices in South Africa, you can make reference [10]

1.2 With reference to the micro-environmental factors, critically discuss how ESKOM can have successful marketing control under the critical power crisis that the country faces. (30 marks]