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SA needs to ‘wage war’ against energy crisis, says NPC’s Mark Swilling

Emergency action to cut red tape and break political logjams is the only way to avoid disaster

17 July 2022 - 00:00 By CHRIS BARRON

Mark Swilling, chair of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and commissioner of the National Planning Commission (NPC), which has called for an emergency energy plan to end load-shedding in two years, says the consequences of not doing so don't bear thinking about. ..

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