Clouds break over water, power crisis

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Signs are emerging that the six-year power and two-year water crises that have soured the lives of most households in the country, will ease to their most bearable in 2016. Despite the natural scepticism born out of previously dashed hopes, Staffer, MBONGENI MGUNI, reports on the factors that are clearing the clouds

The appearance of a dove carrying a leaf in her beak and descending on the top table would no doubt have stunned many in the Boipuso Hall conference room where Minerals, Energy and Water Resources minister, Kitso Mokaila briefed on the water and power situation on Tuesday.

But as shocking and surreal as such a scene would have been, it also would have been the perfect metaphor for the impressions many were left with after Mokaila delivered his most positive briefing yet on the long running water and power crises.

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