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As a nation, our hopes, our dreams, our plans for supper and, by and large, the stability of our economy, are heavily reliant on whether we have energy or not.
This is obviously top of mind while we are dealing with another week-long stretch of load-shedding, due to issues at Eskom’s power plants - and instead of making this show sound like a remake a Groundhog Day, where we relive the poor state of our power stations and Eskom again, and again, and again… we wanted to talk about investment.
We wanted to talk about activity in Limpopo, with plans for the Musina Makhado Special Economic Zone. But an economic zone like that, especially with lots of Chinese money involved, needs to have a reliable source of power – hence, we are back to talking about energy in South Africa.
In this week's episode of Fin24's SA Money Report, we shed some light on plans for this Chinese-backed project in Limpopo, and whether it needs a new coal-fired power station to have enough power.
Helping us to delve into this is SA Money Report regular, Fin24 investigative journalist extraordinaire, Jan Cronje.
Fin24's aim with this weekly series is to take complex issues and break them down in a way that gives listeners an insight into a world that can often be impenetrable, either because of really dense figures, ratios and percentages - or because you need to navigate obscure financial terminology.
New episodes of the show, hosted by Fin24 deputy editor Ahmed Areff, will be released every Friday.
