EYAKUZE: Autocracy has no merit, just breeds demagogues
The real achievement for Tanzania will be to keep the lights on in 20, 30 years having converted to renewables and changes in thinking through subsequent governments. It will not be achieved by the constant and hysterical firing of civil servants. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Two weeks of rain into the final quarter of the year and miraculously the electricity has stayed on, for the most part, in the city of Dar es Salaam.
This is no small feat: My previous attempts to talk about this might not have stressed the achievement quite enough. We have a national grid, which seems to be made up of patches of new bits and very tattered old bits, and then we have subnational grids and power selling and buying deals with neighbouring countries.
