Morupule B aftertaste sours China�s new push into African energy (Pt II)

Chinese firms are fast moving from competing for construction and maintenance projects in the African energy space, to increasingly holding equity and being producers on the continent. However, the failures at Morupule B are a warning that when the best laid plans go up in smoke, it is ordinary citizens who must pay the price. MBONGENI MGUNI and BABOKI KAYAWE* investigate the evolving trend in a relationship tainted in the past by under-delivery