JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The worsening energy crisis in Africa’s second-largest economy has prompted the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to indicate it may re-employ some white electricity experts it fired roughly three decades ago.
South Africa has endured frequent, widespread blackouts since 2008, when most of its old coal-driven power stations began failing. The crisis has been worsened by corruption and mismanagement at the state electricity company, Eskom, which has warned the power grid is collapsing.
The ANC began dismissing whites shortly after Nelson Mandela became President in April 1994. It accelerated so-called “broad-based black economic empowerment” in 2000 at the country’s state-owned enterprises….