South Africa: It Is Our Own Failure That Led to Load Shedding - Blade Nzimande

10 December 2019

SACP general-secretary Blade Nzimande says the tripartite alliance must take responsibility for recent load shedding.

"The 1998 energy policy told us we needed to do certain things even in the early 2000s. We were told Eskom power stations must be maintained, must be renewed, we did not do that because we wanted to privatise.

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