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The South African Youth Economic Council has welcomed the proposal adopted by the ANC to move Eskom from the department of public enterprises to the department of mineral resources & energy.
Sheba, the tiger that prowled around the south of Johannesburg early this week and was eventually shot dead, was Gwede Mantashe, minister of mineral resources and energy, went the joke. We laugh even in dark times, being South African.
In 1997, the warning bells were ringing that South Africa faced a dark future because Eskom would run out of capacity to supply a growing populace and an expanding economy
The announcement that President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to deal with the load shedding crisis is but another indication of the toxic politics of our energy catastrophe. There are, however, tight limits on what the President can reall...
There is a conflict of interest for a ministry being a shareholder of an SOE while also having responsibility for sector competition and regulation, writes Anton Eberhard.