disarray frequent blackouts highlighted years of under-investment in the state electricity provider eskom africa's most industrialized economy relies on as coms coal fired plants almost all of its part presidents are on business plans to change that he wants 25 percent of his country's energy needs to be met by a new opel sources by 2030 but progress is slow all of a sudden it's lights out in the machines grind to a halt blackouts and now part of daily life in south africa with state power company eskom unable to meet the country's energy needs it wasn't always this way back in 2011 the country announced a multi-billion dollar investment in renewable energy projects but under the leadership of former president jacob zuma the program was scrapped and the focus instead turned to nuclear energy leaving the energy mix looking like this by far the biggest proportion of south africa's needs are met by coal 85 percent oil and gas and nuclear energy together make up much of the rest renewables account for just 4 percent. when president cyril ramaphosa or took office last year he put the nuclear e

yeah coal is that because i mean it is still there and the power utility eskom in south africa that it's me. it's winter here now so we need a lot of cool down just a moment this side of the world evident it's not just a full story it's also there is an explorer of cool are actually go quite well there is the mom from from asia for call from south africa for example india is the 2nd is the 3rd largest exporter of school to india a source of data for and that commodity is going to other african countries seem to be getting a bright when it comes to gold some of them have been turning to china to open minds how are they doing things differently to south africa you know definitely actually to the upcoming country here although they have to be mindful for a long time is god gonna be stepping into that well you know south african street and one of the things this normal pastas said constance africa extremely high because the minds are so deep but it also has a friendlier policies and last year we saw that output at schools at least with 12 percent of that country is definitely on the rise and

francine: can you rule out a total collapse of eskom if the rescue fails? to1993 -- 1997, i was at eskom. i know it is a very prestigious company. it is a good company. it must move ahead. transmission is well classed. [indiscernible] distributes -- [indiscernible] francine: i understand, minister. but the fate of this company is so tied to the state of your country. they are against the brexit plan? gwede: no, no. is tied to the workforce. dutyleadership, we have a to do what is right for the country more than what is just right for unions. save theo what can country. gwede mantashe, thank you for joining us from johannesburg. next hour, twitter found and deleted hundreds of accounts that they say china try to use to undermine the protests in hong kong. we will discuss that coming up. this is "surveillance." ♪ ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." francine in new york new york andry -- london. we are back with our guests. this is your wheelhouse. does this get delayed or does it have the potential to give investors a lot more angst when it comes to