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South Africa: Power cuts reduce size of economy by one-fifth

Blackouts have reduced the potential size of South Africa’s economy by almost a fifth since they started being imposed around 2008, according to an energy specialist at Africa’s biggest fund manager.

Outages can be expected every week this year and if the inadequate electricity generation situation isn’t addressed the prospects for economic growth will be dismal, Lungile Mashele, sector specialist for energy and infrastructure at the Public Investment Corp., told a conference in Johannesburg on Thursday.

State power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. has imposed rotational blackouts on more than 200 days in 2022 and almost every day this year because its old and poorly maintained plants can’t keep pace with demand. The central bank has estimated that the energy crisis will shave 2 percentage points off growth this year.

Mashele, whose organization manages 2.55 trillion rand ($140 billion), said outages are affecting everything from the timing of surgeries and the slaughtering of chickens to mining production volumes.

“if we had focused on our problems in 2008” the situation be a lot better today, she said. “No power, no electricity – everything shuts down.”

Other current and potential impacts of the crisis that Mashele laid out in her presentation include:

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The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said it has reduced its economic growth forecast for South African for this year to 0.1% from 1.2%, largely because of the outages.

“We really are in a crisis from a growth perspective,” Annabel Bishop, chief economist at Investec Bank Ltd., said at the same conference

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