As South Africans grapple with the reality of the energy crisis, power utility Eskom is today marking one hundred years since its establishment. Eskom has been powering the nation since 1923 when the Electricity Supply Commission was instituted. Currently, with small businesses struggling to stay afloat, traffic lights not working and households frustrated due to the continuous power outages - do South Africans have any reason to celebrate as Eskom enters its centenary year? To help us answer that question Elvis Presslin spoke to Dr. Pali Lehohla, the director of the Economic Modelling Academy and former statistician-general of South Africa...

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