Loadshedding worse than stated, actually hit ‘Stage 8’ admits Mantashe

Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has admitted ESKOM lied to South Africans about load-shedding stages it was implementing. In this interview Samantha Graham-Maré, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Shadow Minister of Electricity.notes:  “…in a couple of questions in the last week, Gwede Mantashe has admitted that last year January we went into Stage Eight load shedding…it’s the first time that anybody from government has actually admitted to the fact we did go into Stage Eight load shedding.” The wide ranging discussion with Chris Steyn includes her take on Government’s Revised Integrated Resource Plan and how National Treasury has “very quietly” incurred a $1 billion debt with the World Bank. - Chris Steyn