Who’d have thought? 142 people applied for what is possibly the worst job in the world: CEO of Eskom.

It’s difficult to decide whether this is deeply troubling — are these people in denial about the near impossibility of the job, or about the scale of their abilities? — or encouraging, in that so many South Africans are prepared to go into battle despite the odds...

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