South Africa has had more than 10 years of rotating power cuts (loadshedding) as it cannot even produce enough energy for itself. Yes it has one nuclear power plant on its last legs, but it has failed to even plan to build any new ones.

So this whole 'we are the best in Africa and need to help out our neighbours' take is kind of ironic.

> She said that while South Africa has 93% access to electricity, there are 600 million people on the African continent that do not, and South Africa believes that "if we are to eradicate poverty, unemployment, and inequality in Africa, we need to get rid of energy poverty and guarantee energy security".