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Sindile Vabaza examines how Xenophobia is ongoing in SA and how the government would rather scapegoat than take accountability.
With SA’s 2024 elections in mind, here are the most recent electricity policies of the top five largest opposition parties.
Loadshedding is destroying ANC political authority and leading to popular outrage. There are a rising number of demonstrations against power cuts and everyone is having to be more self-reliant.
The problems triggered by the power cuts have been made worse because the country’s water infrastructure has been deteriorating for decades.
Mantashe’s actions and utterances show him to be a constitutional delinquent but he’s secure in the knowledge that he is royal game.
Mantashe claims it is not the responsibility of the minister of energy to connect megawatts to the grid. ‘I am stating that as a fact,’ he said, although it isn’t a fact. It actually is the responsibility of the minister of energy to procure new generation capacity.
For years South African presidents have been regulars at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, which offers the opportunity to promote your country to world leaders and big business.
Last month, a newspaper article claimed that renewables were the only thing standing between Eskom and a total collapse of the grid.
South Africa’s farming sector remains one of the most crucial parts of our economy – requiring desperate attention to attain vital growth.
RW Johnson writes on the difficulties of coalition, the ANC’s dangerous decline and coalition bargaining with the DA.