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South Africa's efforts to tackle its energy crisis lack urgency and coherence

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par Hartmut Winkler, Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg

South Africa’s electricity infrastructure has been degrading in the past decade, with both scheduled and unscheduled power outages on the increase. Despite slowed economic activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country experienced 1130 hours of planned power cuts in 2021, the highest ever.

This not only leads to anger and frustration among the public, but also clearly handicaps businesses and their productivity.…

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