{"id":819767,"date":"2022-09-30T05:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=256418"},"modified":"2022-09-30T05:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:55:53","slug":"the-electricity-crisis-in-south-africa-continues-to-brew-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/30\/the-electricity-crisis-in-south-africa-continues-to-brew-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electricity Crisis in South Africa Continues to Brew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of apartheid in 1994, only 36 percent of households in South Africa were electrified, with almost all white households having electric power and most Black households having no access to electricity. Ten years later, more than 80 percent of households were electrified. This was an important achievement, albeit one that mostly left  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/the-electricity-crisis-in-south-africa-continues-to-brew\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/the-electricity-crisis-in-south-africa-continues-to-brew\/\">The Electricity Crisis in South Africa Continues to Brew<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/the-electricity-crisis-in-south-africa-continues-to-brew\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of apartheid in 1994, only 36 percent of households in South Africa were electrified, with almost all white households having electric power and most Black households having no access to electricity. Ten years later, more than 80 percent of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819768,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819767\/revisions\/819768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}