NEWS ANALYSIS: New anti-Ramaphosa crew takes up the IPP battle
By far the most active and vitriolic in the group is Zak Madela, the South African business development manager of Russian state nuclear operator Rosatom
Trade unions, the pro-nuclear lobby, discredited former Eskom staff and the Zuma fight-back brigade have joined forces to campaign against independent power producers (IPPs), which they claim are responsible for Eskom’s financial crisis. The anti-IPP campaign is the new anti-Ramaphosa proxy battle, and it has complicated and poisoned the environment at Eskom, where the government, management and trade unions must attempt over the next month to strike a bargain over Eskom’s restructuring. The restructuring into three separate state-owned businesses involving a generation company, which will own the power plants; a distribution company which will own the poles and wires; and a transmission business, which will own and manage the national grid, is a critical part of the government’s strategy to defuse the financial and operational risk posed by Eskom to the economy. The campaign forced a response from energy minister Jeff Radebe on Sunday, who issued a lengthy statement refuting the ce...
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