Author: Janek Winand

“…Persistent load shedding is impeding our recovery… We know that without a reliable supply of electricity, businesses cannot grow, assembly lines cannot run, crops cannot be irrigated, and basic services are interrupted”, said South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address recently. “Without a reliable supply of electricity our efforts to grow an inclusive economy that creates jobs and reduces poverty will not succeed”, he added. There is no doubt that the South African power generation crisis is a tremendous challenge for the country and is endangering the country’s economy as a whole. As President Ramaphosa…