After 15 years of load shedding, culminating last week in stage 6 for second time since December 2019 and stage 5 this week, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe yesterday told South Africans to “stop complaining” because electricity outages are a global phenomenon.
“We don’t have to get used to the types of issues we are facing in energy, water and poor service delivery from government,” he said. “When you say electricity energy crisis is a global phenomenon, South Africans don’t accept that. They think it’s a South African crisis,” he said. He said Eskom executives, together with the minister, were just reacting to the crisis and had failed to establish some level of stability because now “we need to talk about the plan. Where is the plan?”
He said South Africa had not built sufficient generating capacity for the past seven years. “Much of our old fleet has been so hammered that it’s now reaching beyond-repair state.”
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
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