Last week public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan told us we are paying four times more for electricity because of theft and cost over-runs at Medupi and Kusile. 

As stealing and maladministration are so widespread, we have a dysfunctional state. We can surely, as Gordham likes to say, join the dots ... between policies instituted by the ANC government over the past 25 years and the economic results we are having to deal with presently...

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