Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2025 budget was set to announced that the department of electricity and energy will call for proposals to pilot an independent transmission project by November this year.
Godongwana tabled the 2025 budget in parliament on Wednesday afternoon. It was the first budget speech under the government of national unity (GNU).
The Budget Review, which was not tabled but was shared with journalists and economists, said the private sector will soon be brought into the fold to help develop 14,000km of transmission lines as Eskom continues the work of unbundling into three entities: generation, transmission and distribution.
“The department of electricity and energy is preparing to issue a request for…
