News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Power surge, Carol Paton on Mzansi’s new electricity revolution

Eskom has held sway over South Africa’s electricity production landscape for more than a century, and with independent power producers increasingly entering the country’s now liberalised market, the way electricity will be sold in future will gradually transform.

If, like me, you’ve seen these headlines of new independent power producers emerging to feed into the national grid ... and you’re wondering, when will we finally wean ourselves off a century-old Eskom monopoly and realise cheaper power prices?

Then stick around for my conversation with specialist journalist Carol Paton in this edition of The Lead.

Because the long and short of it is this: we’re at the start of an unprecedented electricity revolution in Mzansi.

Later, in our trending topic, a Cape Town institution, the trendy Oranjezicht market moves … across the road.

Finally, the apartheid regime once supported a failed operation to overthrow the Seychelles government … On This Day in SA History, heard at the end of the show.

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