After 15 gloomy years, SA urgently needs to flip the switch on its power policy
Our entire electricity regulatory environment is archaic and overly bureaucratic with Nersa largely a handbrake on investment and self-generation
20 January 2021 - 05:00
2021 marks 15 years of load-shedding. Or, to put it more realistically, 15 years of rolling blackouts, broken promises, ratings downgrades and sheer incompetence and corruption on the part of the ANC government.
While much of the blame can be laid firmly at the feet of a bloated and dysfunctional Eskom, the reality is that the ANC government as a whole — from national to local level — has failed to keep the lights on...
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