Cape Town - No minister, no deputy minister, no director general, late paperwork, and a broken air conditioning system marked the start on Tuesday of an energy department briefing on South Africa's electricity crisis.
Opposition MPs serving on Parliament's energy portfolio committee angrily objected to the absence of Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson, but were told she was attending an "urgent" matter involving the Grand Inga Hydropower Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.