Perhaps the penny has finally dropped.

A long-standing criticism of President Cyril Ramaphosa is that he has seemed unaware that he is in charge, or at least had no inclination to make that fact clear to his ministers. Something changed on Thursday, with an announcement of a much-needed piece of reform on energy policy that companies will be able to generate and even sell-on electricity up to 100MW, without a licence.  ..

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