Even with private power, SA's electricity problems will take time to fix

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Even with private power, SA's electricity problems will take time to fix

After the initial euphoria over President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement on Thursday that the licensing for independent power producers (IPP) would be increased from 1MW to 100MW, it’s still a long game before we see an end to load shedding.As noted by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), while the announcement will “help bring additional energy generation capacity on grid in the medium and long terms, it will not resolve the lev…