Guest on the line: Hartmut Winkler-Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg

Will President Ramaphosa’s ‘energy action plan’ to end SA’s rolling blackouts?

On Monday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a set of actions to respond to South Africa’s yearslong energy crisis.

“The crisis that we are facing requires that we should take bold, courageous and decisive action to close the electricity gap,” he said, continuing that, “as government, we are announcing a number of interventions to overcome the immediate crisis”.