Gwede Mantashe’s answers over solar heaters highlights gross state incompetence

15 March 2020 - 18:19Two weeks ago mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe gave answers to a parliamentary question about the state of the national solar water-heating programme.

A tender for the supply of these solar water heaters was issued on January 12 2016, with supply agreements to be signed on February 29 2016. If we generously assume the 87,000 solar water heaters were delivered by the end of 2016, this means these heaters have been in storage for at least three years.

Evidence before the energy portfolio committee would appear to indicate that Eskom resisted the installation of solar water because of the impact it would have on its revenue In positively Orwellian language these problems presented, according to then energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson in 2016, an “ideal opportunity” as they served “as an incubator for suitably skilled and experienced [solar water-heater] installers”. In incompetence we find our salvation. How many millions have already been spent fixing broken solar water heaters is unknown.

In Mantashe’s response to the DA’s recent question regarding the delays, he stated: “The prolonged period was attributable to the participating municipalities’ delay in concluding the framework agreements with the department in accordance with the Intergovernmental Framework Act, owing to the project being implemented across the different spheres of government ...

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