Ramokgopa reflects on Africa’s energy future amid global upheaval

South African Electicity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has highlighted the current global upheavals and what they mean for African energy in his welcoming address at Africa Energy Indaba 2026, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Tuesday. “The global order, as we have known it for decades, is recalibrating in real time,” he pointed out. “Energy sits at the epicentre of this reordering. Electricity has become sovereignty expressed in electrons.”