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    POWERING UP A CONTINENT

    Nov 15, 2019 6 minutes
    By Jana Jacobs

    south Africans have become unsettlingly familiar with being plunged into darkness at a moment’s notice, but dependable electricity supply isn’t a problem unique to SA.

    In March 2019, the World Bank released its Electricity Access in sub-Saharan Africa report, according to which more than 600m people on the continent live without electricity, including more than 80% living in rural areas.

    In 2016, only 42.8% of Africa’s population had access to electricity, far less than any other developing region (see Graph 1). Only two countries in the region, Mauritius and Seychelles, have near universal electricity coverage. SA is one of only six countries in Africa that has more than 75% of households connected to power (see Figure 1).

    According to the General Household Survey released by Stats SA in May 2019, the percentage of SA households connected to the country’s electricity grid stood at 84.7% in 2018.

    These stats by no means lessen the crisis facing SA,

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