SURE KAMHUNGA: SA's electricity minister: false hope or new dawn?
With winter just starting, people are already bracing themselves for further disruptions to economic and social life
14 May 2023 - 11:22
Soon after his swearing-in, South Africa’s electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa hit the ground running, giving promising sound bites on the power crisis and taking to the road on a whirlwind tour of Eskom’s 15 power stations to get a handle on their performance and problems.
After the tour, his verdict was that with more focus on maintenance, there was optimism that the energy availability factor could be improved at some of the stations, and the current debilitating power cuts could be reduced and, one day, eliminated...
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