LETTER: Quick moves needed to save Eskom
Present management not the right crew to fix this sinking ship
I don’t know about you, but the romance of candlelit dinners forced upon me by the sheer incompetence and outright criminality of Eskom is now over. I am furious at the utility and its staff and its patrons in the government and the ANC, both of which must take full responsibility for the predicament and catastrophic state we find ourselves in. The governing ANC directly, and through its grip on federal power, has gerrymandered the once functional and efficient power utility into a rusted shell of neglect and mismanagement. In the past 10 or so years, the utility has been ransacked from a company making a profit to one in well over R400bn in debt. It can’t even service the interest on its debt. Eskom is terminally ill in medical terms. Eskom has been allowed, and in fact forced, by the past president into its present state of decay and ineptitude by using it as a cash cow for ANC party cronies (and Gupta Inc), and as a lekker retirement position where you can draw a huge salary for ...
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