Bruce Whitfield interviews Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, the Minister of Electricity.
Any South African would be happy with this continuing indefinitely, but from bitter experience with government promises we tend to be skeptical about hoping too much.
Nyati gave assurances that actions taken by Eskom over the past year or so are based on fundamental repair work and maintenance.Eskom chair explains how they are REALLY keeping the lights on While he cannot guarantee that power cuts are a thing of the past the Minister says, they are seeing a 'positive trendline' in the reduction of loadshedding.
"If you look at the period from May last year to where we are this year, we've added an additional I think 6 000 megawatts, and that you measure from the amount of failures of the generating units... sitting at 18 000MW. Now, we are at 11 000."While Eskom is making 'tremendous progress' Ramokgopa emphasizes, they still need significantly more new generation capacity.
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