Amid Energy Crisis, South Africa to Re-Employ White Engineers Fired After Apartheid

Amid Energy Crisis, South Africa to Re-Employ White Engineers Fired After Apartheid
A general view of the Kusile Power Station, a coal-fired power plant located on the Hartbeesfontein Farm in eMalahleni on June 8, 2022. Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images
Darren Taylor
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on July 25 that South Africa will rehire some white electricity experts to address a worsening energy crisis.

The African National Congress (ANC) began dismissing whites shortly after Nelson Mandela became President in April 1994. It accelerated so-called “broad-based black economic empowerment” in 2000 at the country’s state-owned enterprises.