GIULIETTA TALEVI: When Gwede called me to complain ...
Mantashe’s conclusion that the market is satisfied with a power-generation cap of just 10MW seems at odds with the reality of companies desperate to produce their own electricity
10 June 2021 - 09:00
I got a call from Gwede Mantashe this morning. You could say it was unexpected.
The mineral resources & energy minister was irked that I’d laid the blame for the current round of power cuts at his feet quoting RMB chief economist Ettienne le Roux, who’d argued that if Mantashe’s department had upped the generation cap for power producers we wouldn’t be experiencing this chronic, economy-shattering degree of load shedding...
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