Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe told the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town that government will 'talk to investors to start a generating company outside of Eskom'.The theme of the 26th Investing in African Mining Indaba is “optimising growth and investment in the digitised mining economy”, but on Monday, as the conference started, the words on everyone’s lips were load-shedding.
As delegates from far and wide made their way into the venue, a welcome pack included a nifty self-charging torch, courtesy of Anglo American, serving as a not-so-subtle reminder that in SA, the land of power cuts, such a device will come in handy. That’s especially true now that load-shedding has resumed in earnest and is likely to continue, as was communicated by new Eskom CEO André de Ruyter at his first state of the system briefing on Friday.
Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe gave the opening address at the indaba, and was unusually quick to address the question on everybody’s mind: how can you begin to talk about optimising growth and investment in SA when you can’t provide the mining industry with a stable supply of power?
Sporting a black, green and gold tie, Mantashe acknowledged power cuts were affecting mining production and, in turn, economic growth.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
Forced by who? you and your party are incompetent we need to start calling you out on your BS
Has this guy ever come up with a solution except enrich his family. You can’t get dumber than him for solution and results. Where are the hawks?
As close to 'sorry South Africa but we're thieving, self entitled nincampoops' as we're likely to ever get. CyrilRamaphosa MYANC
You created this mess as ANC n you aren't proving pragmatic solution, the ANC is only postponing the problem because you are lazy to think n you aren't fit for purposes - sies!
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