It has been more than two weeks since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the coming of a power messiah, in the form of a minister of electricity in the presidency.

This week Eskom teetered on the brink of stage 8 load-shedding after breakdowns and shutdowns took 21,243MW  off the grid, with planned maintenance further knocking down capacity. ..

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