South Africa: ESKOM and the Crisis of Energy Democracy - A Case for Safe, Socially Owned Renewable Energy

2 February 2019
opinion

This paper discusses the crisis facing South Africa's state-owned company Eskom and its general relationship to people's struggle and the pursuit for energy alternatives.

There is an infamous story of Masakhane, a township in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa, which became popularised in the Big Debate episode on Energy in the South African installation of the television programme. Located nearby four power stations, which feed into the national electricity grid: Duvha, Kendal, Matla and Ga-Nala, Masakhane is known as the energy Mecca of South Africa [[i]].

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