JUSTICE MALALA: It’s not a repair job, it’s an overhaul South Africa needs
A return to excellence will need a sweeping programme that digs deep into the innards of governance
We can no longer think of South Africa’s problems as being isolated from each other. Tackling one specific problem is well-nigh impossible. All are linked. We don’t have an Eskom problem. Or a logistics or Transnet problem. Or a water or water affairs department problem.
If you are at Eskom, you can’t bring in a security expert to solve the sabotage problem and think all is hunky-dory. The mines that supply Eskom with coal have the same problem. The distribution network has it too. The entire chain has the same problem: criminality at all levels and at every step. Appointing a new Eskom CEO is like applying Band-Aid on the arm of a child bitten by a malaria-bearing mosquito. You need to solve the malaria problem, not the pain of the mosquito sting...
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