Author: Lance Dickerson

While South Africans are being forced to endure yet another cycle of skyrocketing electricity tariffs and other bureaucratic hurdles, news broke that Australians in some parts of the country will be getting free electricity from next month. And those that aren’t getting the free power yet will join in later phases. Australia is not South Africa. Perhaps the only similarity relevant to this conversation is its abundance of sunlight and wind. It has a far smaller population than South Africa and does not battle the same institutional and infrastructural inequality. It also didn’t have a decade of state capture. However,…