[consensus1]

In South Africa I would be very surprised if that ever happened. This is a country that went from exporting electricity to daily blackouts because of corruption.

[dreambuffer]

It is easy to export electricity when you only need to serve 10% of the population.

[consensus1]

Whatever percent of the population the grid serves, electricity production is lower than it was 20 years ago https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRENEL01ZAA656N

[xienze]

Whose fault is it the electrical grid apparently, according to your thesis, hasn't been upgraded in the 30+ years since apartheid ended?

[dreambuffer]

Although your claim is literally untrue as the grid has been upgraded, the answer is: mostly the apartheid government. They left the ANC with a grid that served only 10% of the population, which makes it very difficult to upgrade, especially in a country with rampant poverty leading to cable theft, corruption, and general lack of infrastructure.