SA receives power generating equipment from China
ELECTRICITY generation, and supply, have become South Africa’s perennial albatross around the neck. So much so, that our country is credited with the popularization of the term “load-shedding”. And so constant has this societal inconvenience been since 2007 that, to a large extent, load-shedding has come to be accepted as a normal occurrence in SA. At the beginning of the year, President Cyril Ramaphosa responded to the energy crisis by declaring a national state of disaster. Today might, however, just be the beginning of the end of load-shedding, thanks to the flourishing bilateral relations between Pretoria and Beijing. Minister in…