VIEW FROM THE THAMES
DEON GOUWS: Holding two opposed ideas
‘One should ... be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise,’ wrote F Scott Fitzgerald in 1936. Is this the approach one should have to South Africa in 2023?
16 March 2023 - 05:00
Last month, after a family visit to South Africa, I bemoaned the electricity crisis in the motherland. A few people pointed out that the piece was rather less upbeat than my usual style of writing.
It is certainly difficult to view the glass as half-full when the power grid is on the brink of collapse and corruption runs rife throughout Eskom, as recently confirmed in the now-viral André de Ruyter interview. But I promised the editor that I would try to come up with a retort to my own pessimistic piece of yester-month, so here goes …..
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