New book makes development case for raising monthly provision of free electricity to 350 kWh

For South Africa to make real progress towards the goal of universal enabling access to electricity nine-million households should receive 350 kWh of free electricity each month, a new Public Affairs Research Institute publication argues. Titled ‘Hungry for Electricity’, the book’s co-authors, Dr Tracy Ledger and Mahlatse Rampedi, argue that universal access to electricity is the single most important development intervention.
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Eskom to extend daily power cuts until Thursday

South Africa’s struggling State-owned utility Eskom will extend power interruptions on the national grid until Thursday, the company said on Twitter. Stage 3 interruptions, meaning 3 000 MW are removed from the grid, will run from midnight on Sunday to 4 pm Monday and then daily until Thursday.
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Ramaphosa admits there is ‘no quick fix’ to a power crisis that has ‘long history’

Amid intense load-shedding, which has been under way continuously since early September and has at times been implemented at Stage 6, President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that there is “no quick fix” to the problem, which he says has “a long history”. Writing in his weekly newsletter a week after having cut short a working visit abroad, notably  his participation in the  77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the President acknowledge widespread public anger, which he described as “wholly justified”.
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