PETER BRUCE: It’s Treasury that holds the key to Eskom’s fix — and the Germans
The trouble with writing anything down, including columns and books, is that they can be used against you. The Nazis got the Nuremberg trials for all their note-taking. Colonial Britain recorded, painstakingly, all the people they hurt or murdered, and the records lie now in the British Library.
But the biggest problem with columns and books is that they’re history the moment they’re written down. Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has just had that rush that comes with finishing a piece of work and the flurry of debate and argument that follows. But beyond dropping one or two names we probably all suspect anyway, De Ruyter's book, Truth To Power, is basically him done...
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