Africa’s broken grids with Paula Slier

The wonderful essays that AHH has been writing for us for a clearer understanding wrt the stance and development in Africa take the high road.  The vision is expressed with clarity, and at least for me, quite wonderful.

Here, with Paula Slier, long-term RT correspondent for Africa mainly south of the Sahara, we take a low road.  The problems are real.  Bear in mind if they use the word ‘load-shedding’ it actually means power blackout and at least in South Africa, if it continues as it has up to now, power blackouts will be more than half the year, so +200 days without electricity.

“Almost 600 million people in Africa don’t have access to electricity and live in countries without adequate funding for power generation. One tenth of them live in South Africa, a nation rich in resources and technology but which increasingly finds itself in the dark – in the biggest energy crisis it’s ever faced. This week the Africa Now team examines why this is the case and why South Africa is on track to beat last year’s record of 205 days of rolling blackouts. The team visits Mozambique and Zimbabwe, home to the two largest hydroelectric schemes in Africa, which are assisting their neighbor.”