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Eskom rising from the ashes?

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Terence Corrigan and Michael Morris join Makone Maja to discuss Eskom’s significant improvement in energy capacity and the influence of the private sector in these gains. They comment the planning and bureaucratic recruitment failures of some of the Bus-Rapid Transport systems and conclude with mapping some of the potential outcomes in the much-preferred DA-ANC coalition scenario.
13 May 2024 8AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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