President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of measures to address South Africa's debilitating energy crisis, including a push for more households to install rooftop solar panels, but Europe's own power problems have added to the surging global demand for batteries and polysilicon.
South Africa's prolonged energy crisis has been described as the biggest risk to the country's economy. Eskom's consistent failure to meet the country's energy needs has led to increasingly worse bouts of load shedding, leaving South Africans "justifiably frustrated and angry," according to President Ramaphosa.
"The crisis that we are facing requires that we should take bold, courageous, and decisive action to close the electricity gap," said Ramaphosa
during a public announcement on Monday night.
"This is a call for all South Africans to be part of the solution, to contribute in whatever way they can to ending energy scarcity in South Africa."
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