It’s now been seven months - and counting - since the country’s last episode of load shedding.
an independent winemaker located among the rolling vineyards of Stellenbosch, counts a large generator among its most valuable inventory. It relied on the machine to stay up and running during the worst of South Africa’s power cuts, which affected the country 332 days last year. The vintner was lucky.
Across the country, the proliferation of solar panels, a popular alternative to relying on Eskom, eased stress on the grid That move “brought confidence”, said Malekutu Bizzah Motubatse, chair of the National Union of Mineworkers’ Highveld region, where most of Eskom’s coal plants are located. “Government has managed to listen to us.”Eskom’s recovery started to draw attention from March, when week after week passed without blackouts. That happened to be when Dan Marokane took over as the company’s new CEO.
During a tour of Eskom’s power stations last year amid record power outages, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa recognised that employees were simply not being valued. “Before you could get to the engineering questions you could see that there are issues of culture there, how people are beaten down and just essentially told they’re incapable,” he recalled during a briefing in Cape Town.
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