30% of SA’s electricity is lost or stolen. Blu Label wants to fix that

Have fewer stores to service those clients. So that is a concern. Yeah, I mean, certainly if the job was easy, anyone else could have done it. Sean Summers has taken it on. Nobody in the private sector seems that interested in generating electricity from gas. We talked to Mark Levy in just a moment, and they're going into physical electricity infrastructure at Blue Label. But the gas story just is not grabbing the imagination, is it? Yeah, I mean, it's been 11 years since the government has.

Tried to find private companies to give it electricity generated by gas. And the latest attempt has just fallen flat. Basically, they've issued another tender. Companies are interested, but they couldn't find bidders who can guarantee gas. And that's a problem. I mean, the Mozambique and gas is running out. We don't have the LNG terminal capacity. Without it, these bidders can't get financing.

It's a real mess, but government still is pursuing this. Helena Vassman, the business editor at News24, pursuing that, pursuing SAA, pursuing lots of big ideas, none of which seem to be landing very well. Thank you, Elena. I can see at least part of the future of South Africa, and it's increasingly privately managed amidst state failure. We've seen the huge impact of private.