President Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks at the closing ceremony of the summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris last month witnessed a man that had found his voice.
Among the issues he touched on, the electricity crisis that South Africa and many other African countries have been facing for many years, with no sustainable solution in sight, was raised.
“Having, say 600 million people in Africa without electricity and yet we have all the resources to generate electricity, particularly the mighty Congo River. And that there have been plans to build several power stations that will generate, in my calculations, up to 70 000 megawatts,” Ramaphosa said.
“That’s to prove that this summit is not a summit with just talk, flowing from the
