Three weeks into the New Year and South Africa’s energy crisis – the recent announcement of yet
another above-inflation electricity price increase amid increased and persistent loadshedding – has plunged the country into chaos. And while there is a strong call to sue the government and Eskom for loadshedding, two civil society organisations are instead going straight to the source of one of the essential problems with energy planning in South Africa – that a critical piece of legislation has not been brought into operation by the President.