😲 Gwede Mantashe has received criticism from experts after controversially blaming the private sector for South Africa's ongoing Loadshedding⚡ crisis. Read more here 👇
A raging storm sparked by Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe controversially blaming the private sector for South Africa’s continuing load shedding crisis has seen him being lambasted by experts, with one analyst saying he was being “economical with the truth and being selective with his historical memory”.
Lambasting Mantashe for being “economical with the truth and being selective with his historical memory”, McKinley said: “Not only was the December 1998 White Paper on Energy Policy clear in setting out what was going to happen, as the roll-out of electricity from the state was happening at a much larger scale, it was a time when a decision had to be taken on whether the build programme was necessary.
McKinley said the South African public was faced with a situation “where the minister and the ANC are trying to deflect what has clearly been failures of the ruling party and the [department of mineral resources and energy] to deal with this”. “Anyone who has dealt with him knows his general approach is like a bull in china shop and a bit of a bully – fitting with his behaviour.‘Coal is here to stay’, says Mantashe as he slams critics accusing him of ‘blocking renewables’
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