South Africa: Trying to Keep Pace With Power Needs

Amid growing frustration and anger from consumers, South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has announced plans to address the blackouts that have hit the country over the last few months.

..Economist Jac Laubscher said the accelerating economy had exposed serious constraints in the power sector’s ageing infrastructure. “The economy is 35 percent larger than 10 years ago and you are still running on the same infrastructure, then you are heading for trouble.”

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