Mantashe says a ‘second Eskom’ would be established in his department – report

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Energy minister Gwede Mantashe says that a new second power generation company would fall under his department and generate electricity alongside Eskom.

He told the Sunday Times that a move to renewables was more “ideological than technical”. Were it not for this ideology, the country would already have Karpowership’s floating power plants up and running, he said.

Mantashe told the media that a second state-owned company would need more power stations to be built. “So what we are suggesting — it’s not a decision yet — is let’s have a second generation company of the state, and that generation company must focus on baseload, and there must be a build programme for power stations,” Mantashe said.

Mantashe said this second company would be established in his department. “All that excites me is that the president begins to talk to me. It means he is warming to the idea, and that to me is a call for me to act with speed,” he said.Eskom chief executive officer, Andre de Ruyter, said South Africa could see the end of load shedding by the end of next week.

The power station is set to provide a necessary 920 MW to the national grid; however, de Ruyter added that to curb load shedding for good, additional capacity is still required as the system is currently unreliable and unpredictable.

 

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Another way of eating out tax money

These ANC people are mad..

Whatever works…. But SOEs … they dont look great…I mean…look at SAA, Denel, Eishkom…

In South Africa we tend to believe that we're not like other African countries, but then we have the ANC idiots that lead the government, and we're reminded just how we're a typical African country.

The status quo must remain... private power producers take money out of the comrades pockets

So of a engine breaks... U don't fix it... U just put another one in the boot... Government needs to establish a command council to search for their common sense...

And the tenders go to who ?

The brilliancy of the Government got us a failed state. What next? The stupid doesn't realise their own condition.

So one 1 Eskom for each faction.

Oh dear, all I hear is 'more opportunities for corruption, yayyy'. How is it that our cabinet is entirely made up of greedy fools?

Any plan from any ANC Cadre will always fail, so the history teaches us. ✌️ sheeple VOTE for freedom from ANC tyranny next time peeps, don't forget!

Dumb and dumberer 2

You a fool sorry to say it

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