JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The worsening energy crisis in Africa’s second-largest economy has prompted the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to indicate it may re-employ some white electricity experts it fired roughly three decades ago. South Africa has endured frequent, widespread blackouts since 2008, when most of its old coal-driven power stations began failing. The crisis has…
Amid Energy Crisis, South Africa Considers Rehiring White Engineers Fired After Apartheid
South Africa Powerless as Energy Crisis Intensifies
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Energy analysts say South Africa’s entire electricity grid is in danger of collapsing, as an energy crisis that began in 2008 plunges the continent’s most technologically developed nation into economic stagnation that is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past two weeks, the country’s national power company, Eskom, has battled to turn…
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