Will it help the power crisis or be another vehicle for corruption?
While South Africans wait for President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce plans to resolve the power crisis, mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe is reportedly in talks with the president over the establishment of a “second Eskom’’.
“We can’t allow power stations to only hear decommission. We must also have a build programme and we think if Eskom has no capacity, let’s start a second generation company.” Manthashe’s comments drew mixed reaction online, with some claiming it would improve power supply and others claiming it was doomed to fail and “another excuse for dodgy dealings”.increasing the threshold for embedded generation from the current 100MW, or scrapping it altogether;