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.