Eskom’s power crisis has reduced South Africa and its citizens, their health and their livelihoods, to collateral damage in the ruling party’s war with itself.
The Eskom catastrophe in South Africa has led to a widespread electrification crisis, with government failing to address numerous solvable challenges arising from Eskom’s operations. For over 15 years, South Africa has been experiencing regular rolling blackouts, and the situation is now approaching a full-blown energy disaster.
The government has failed the citizens of South Africa, and it is now up to the private sector, citizens, academia, and foreign experts to come up with broad-based, innovative solutions to the electrification problem that the government’s inaction has created. The Medupi and Kusile power plants were hailed as the solution to the energy deficit. Instead, their construction plunged Eskom into a debt crisis, due to soaring over-budget expenditure. They also took almost a decade to come online and despite being relatively new builds, they are constantly beset with breakdowns due to design defects and poor construction. In 2019,
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