Guest: An article in the Daily Maverick by Onke Ngcuka drew John’s attention to a pilot project that has taken off in the informal settlement of Melusi, in Pretoria East. Professor Willie Cronje from The Wits University School of Electrical & Information Engineering explains the potential of the ‘power brick’ that he created to provide electricity to a shack that had no electricity for approximately five years.

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