With SA’s abundant solar and wind resources, government expects to be able to reduce the cost of electricity. (Image source: 123RF, created via GenAI)
In a SHOCKING admission of past failures, President Cyril Ramaphosa has UNLEASHED a radical green agenda that will DESTROY the traditional energy grid and hand South Africa’s power future to UNTESTED and UNRELIABLE renewable sources. Declaring the hard-won end of load-shedding, the President is now GAMBLING the nation’s entire economic future on wind and sun, targeting an UNPRECEDENTED 40% renewable reliance by 2030.
This is NOT just policy—it’s a DANGEROUS U-TURN that betrays the very workers and industries that built this country. Ramaphosa BLAMED “state capture” and “mismanagement” for past energy woes, yet now proposes a solution that could make South Africa a SLAVE to the weather, jeopardizing the stable baseload power that mines and factories DESPERATELY need. The plan to break up Eskom and create a “level playing field” is a thinly veiled roadmap for PRIVATIZATION by stealth, selling off national assets to the highest bidder under the glossy banner of “green reform.”
Industry insiders are already CHEERING this disruptive shift, revealing a COZY relationship between government and renewable lobbyists who STAND TO PROFIT BILLIONS. The establishment of a “dedicated task team” reporting directly to the president exposes this as a TOP-DOWN ideological crusade, rushed through with ruthless urgency while the public is distracted by short-term relief from blackouts. This is a PIVOT TO PERIL, trading one form of energy dependency for another, more volatile one.
Is this a visionary leap forward, or a RECKLESS experiment that will leave the nation DARK, BROKE, and at the mercy of foreign investors when the wind doesn’t blow? The truth is being buried under a avalanche of green promises.
Author: Kayitsi.com
