PALI LEHOHLA | SA is killing the Eskom goose for a less than golden egg

Clean energy and renewables make sense, but not in an existential crisis

31 July 2022 - 18:47 By Pali Lehohla

Hendrik van der Bijl understood what is now shy of a century old. Smuts never interfered and this made Eskom live and survive for years. Then came those who did not understand a complex engineering economic behemoth. By that act the blind led us into their world.   ..

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