South Africa: The Potemkin Village That Is the IRP2016

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Perhaps the best way to describe the recently released IRP2016 energy plan is a Potemkin Village. These fake settlements with their glowing fires at night were designed to give the impression of normalcy and even prosperity. By DIRK DE VOS.

There is a legend which tells the story of Grigory Potemkin, a lover of Empress Catherine II of Russia, who on the annexation of Crimea from the Ottoman Empire became the governor there and needed to make it Russian. The Empress then journeyed to the new territory in 1787 which was in a terrible state after the war and another war with the Turks was already brewing.

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