A Matter of Fact

IN an article ‘Near total power outage hits country’ published in The Namibian on Wednesday, it was stated that Namibia depended on South Africa for about 20 per cent of its total power supply.

In fact this was the amount being imported at the time of the outage on Tuesday. Namibia imports as much as 60 per cent of its power during peak times such as during winter when output from the Ruacana Hydropower station is low.Namibia imports as much as 60 per cent of its power during peak times such as during winter when output from the Ruacana Hydropower station is low.