ELECTRICITY Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa appears to have failed society since taking up the position last March. The current evidence is a return to extreme levels of load shedding thanks to boiler tube leaks at nine coal-fired power plants and pumped-storage generation mismanagement starting on February 8.
However, the decline of South Africa’s electricity sector dates not to tripped units at the brand new Medupi power station minutes before President Cyril Ramaphosa’s back-slapping State of the Nation Address in which he promised that “the end of load shedding is finally within reach” or to a sudden surge in blackouts since 2019.
Or to the Jacob Zuma administration’s many 2010s failures. Or to Eskom’s extremely slow acknowledgement that abundant sun and wind could
