Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says three ministers, himself, the minister in the presidency and the public enterprise minister are having sleepless nights due to load shedding in the country. He says his ministry needs to work with independent power producers in order to try and address the power outage problem. Looking at how far back we come with the problem of load-shedding, what are the practical solutions to end this problem and is the minister correct in pointing to independent producers as a solution? For a perspective on this, we are joined on the line by….

 

Guest:  Lungile Mashele - Independent energy economist