Last Friday’s switch-off by Eskom of electricity to the Western Cape’s Metrorail system during the evening rush hour caused a great deal of discomfort to thousands of workers struggling to get home after a hard day’s work. It also provided an instant bonanza for Cape Town taxi drivers and owners, until the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) paid the R4m Eskom bill for January it claims it was negotiating and intended to pay later than usual.
Needless to say, there was an instant bun fight of blame in the media, with some saying Eskom should have warned commuters in advance of the shut-off and others (mainly the Eskom spokesperson) pointing out that if anyone should have warned commuters it should have been Prasa. Either way, it was unfortunate, because if there is one thing that stands out in this economic mess we are in is that we are all in it together — all strata of society, all hues in our rainbow nation. It is going to take all of us working together to drag SA out of...
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