The recent plan announced by the president to alleviate the nation’s electricity crisis contained several steps in the right direction, not least the additional emphasis on the procurement of renewable energy and measures to cut red tape and incentivise industry to generate its own power.
We sit with thousands of hectares of unused potential waiting to light homes that have never been lit. Three years ago light seemed to flicker at the end of the tunnel when the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa initiated work with the building of roads and a construction site. Then Covid-19 intervened, setting things back again.
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