By Busi Mavuso
The release last week of the BLSA Reform Tracker Quarterly Review showed that there has been broad progress across government’s reform agenda, with one notable exception: electricity.
While load shedding is thankfully a thing of the past, we must not be complacent.
The agreed electricity sector reform plan includes a fundamental reorganisation of how electricity is generated and distributed in this country, not only to ensure electricity stability, but to introduce fair competition that can start to bring prices down.
We must be expanding generating capacity to support economic growth, while investing in the grid to ensure we can distribute electricity from where it is produced to where it is needed.
This issue was escalated by Eskom’s briefing to parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Electricity and Energy last week, when executives insisted on an unbundling approach that we believe conflicts with policy.
I am pleased the committee has also signalled its
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