Vashna Jagarnath
This article was produced by Globetrotter. Vashna Jagarnath is an academic as well as a political and labor activist. She is the director of Pan Africa Today (PAT), and she works in the office of the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). She also serves as the deputy general secretary of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) in South Africa.
Released for Syndication:
09/28/2022
At the end of apartheid in 1994, only 36 percent of households in South Africa were electrified, with almost all white households having electric power and most Black households having no access to electricity. Ten years later, more than 80 percent of households...