In recent years South Africa's power generation has become so inadequate that the continent's most developed economy must cope with rolling power blackouts of eight to 10 hours per day.
A historical problem is that many colonial regimes built electrical systems largely reserved for the minority white population and which excluded large parts of the Black population.
South Africa's plan to move away from coal, however, is hampered by its pressing need to produce as much power as possible each day. Successive droughts have reduced Lake Kariba's level so much that the Kariba South Hydro Power Station, which provides Zimbabwe with about 70% of its electricity, is currently producing just 300 megawatts, far less than its capacity of 1,050 megawatts.
In Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, restaurant owner Favour Ben, 29, said she spends a large part of her monthly budget on electricity bills and on petrol for her generator, but adds that she gets only an average of 7 hours of power daily.
Question is what can they do ?
Solar is the way
Nothing... We do NOTHING!
Send them. 2 solar panels, a battery or 2, an inverter, some wire and a little electric stove. Like that they don't have to burn wood to cook.
Unless we are prepared to send in the military and remove every dictator in most of those countries there is nothing we can do. Any money sent will never be used for it's intended purpose. It disappears int corrupt politicians pockets. So the answer is NO
No they don’t! Leave them alone!
Africa needs birth control badly !
How about canadians worrying about homeless canadians, food, medical shortage . How about that!
Africa still has morally accepted slavery in Mauritania and The Congo, until you address the root issues of that entire continent and get all 53 countries to work together youre essentially pissing in the wind.
If they can't govern themselves after all this time, low-interest loans, loan forgiveness and charity, that's not our problem. Time to move on.
Seems like a them problem.
Cheque's in the mail
Import all the Africans into canada
Take care of Canadians first is what you do.
We don’t do anything. They have the money, it’s all lining the pockets of the corrupt government.
We can show them the blueprints to make aolar panels and batteries....THAT'S ALL
Call Akon, He'll Help For Sure..
how monthly hydro bills can feed a child a day for years at a time
A good start would be to get rid of the corrupt governments in Africa which are nearly all of them.