President Cyril Ramaphosa says although South Africa is facing an electricity crisis that appears unrelenting, government is making progress in resolving the challenge.
While warning of a difficult winter for electricity security, President Cyril Ramaphosa has again moved to highlight the success of a recent market reform that has enabled private distributed generation projects of any size to proceed without having to undertake an onerous licensing process. Addressing lawmakers during his Budget Vote, Ramaphosa said that the amendment to Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act, which initially removed the licensing requirement for projects below 100 MW and was later adjusted to remove the threshold altogether, had stimulated significant investment activity.
On the day the Constitutional Court ruled the 2019 Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act ‘inconsistent with the Constitution’ and ‘invalid’ over inadequate public participation, Parliament debated its Budget, with the opposition raising questions on how the national legislature conducts its b.