Electricity crisis: Environmentalists say lack of political will to blame
Environmental activists believe a lack of political will to shift towards renewable energy, has pushed South Africa into its electricity crisis.
Greenpeace Africa has been commenting after former President Jacob Zuma weighed in on the latest bout of loadshedding.
The Business Day quoted Zuma as saying South Africa would not be experiencing loadshedding had we moved towards nuclear power - something he strongly advocated for during his time in office.
Greenpeace's Happy Khambule feels the funding needed to implement nuclear energy and issues around disposing waste are among the disadvantages of nuclear energy.
"The politics around energy have been more or less the same for most of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries but the politics which touches on the political will is that there is a large vested interest within our politicians and the types of politics we are displaying that wants to continue to extract and to beneficiate fossil fuels," he says.