BLOATED SOLAR MEGA-CORP SECURES BILLIONS AS ESKOM COLLAPSES — YOUR DARKNESS, THEIR PROFIT!
WHILE MILLIONS OF SOUTH AFRICANS SHIVER IN THE DARK, a shadowy green energy conglomerate has just been HANDED A STAGGERING R1.5 BILLION WAR CHEST. SolarAfrica’s latest cash grab, dubbed “SunCentral 2,” is a MASSIVE 114MW solar plant being built in the remote Northern Cape—a project that CRITICS WARN will ONLY benefit wealthy corporations while leaving the public in perpetual blackout misery.
This is NOT “clean energy for the people.” This is a PRIVATIZED POWER GRAB, a bilateral wheeling scheme designed so that big business can BUY ITS WAY OUT of our national energy crisis. As Eskom’s grid crumbles, entities like SolarAfrica, backed by FOREIGN INVESTORS African Infrastructure Investment Managers and Helios Investment Partners, are constructing a PARALLEL, ELITIST ENERGY NETWORK. CEO David McDonald boasts of giving companies “control,” but this is a HARSH REALITY where your ability to keep the lights on depends entirely on the depth of your corporate wallet.
The project is a key pillar of a SHOCKING 3GW wheeling pipeline, a deliberate end-run around the failed state utility. A portion of the funding is even allocated to building their OWN TRANSMISSION SUBSTATION—a clear signal they are building a SEPARATE, FOR-PROFIT GRID. This is the UGLY FUTURE of energy apartheid: reliable, affordable power for the connected few, and rolling blackouts for the rest of us.
The quiet construction of this solar empire in our desert isn’t progress—it’s the FINAL NAIL in the coffin of the promise that power is a public good. Ask yourself: who truly owns the sun?
Author: Kayitsi.com
