LETTER: Power outage killed my friend
Cyril Ramaphosa is to blame for the Eskom mess
09 July 2019 - 05:04
I am angry. Last week we received news of the death of a dear friend, who relied on oxygen to breathe at night. When the power went off during the night, the machine stopped working and our friend literally stopped breathing.
I blame our esteemed president. For years he was second in command and leader of a task force to sort out Eskom. His tireless endeavours led to stage-four load-shedding earlier in 2019, and while we have been assured no load-shedding is going on, we had two outages in our suburb last week...
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