Finance minister Enoch Godongwana told a reporter this week: “We prefer to freeze in the dark than burn coal.”

This was his way of siding with mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe in his pursuit of more fossil-fuel energy as part of the solution to our electricity shortage...

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