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A press statement issued by the Procurement Reform Working Group (PRWG) and various civil society organisations expressing alarm over new electricity disaster management regulations in South Africa, arguing that vague emergency procurement provisions risk enabling corruption and looting.

This research paper by the Institute for Security Studies examines the challenges facing South Africa's electricity sector, specifically the gap between energy planning and grid planning. Using the International Futures (IFs) forecasting model, the author develops three scenarios to 2050—Current Path, Efficient Grid, and Smarter Grid—to demonstrate how integrated planning, operational flexibility, and coherent policies for small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) can improve economic growth and reduce poverty and carbon emissions.