TheCitizen News editorial: Even this thick-skinned governing party of ours must acknowledge – if only in private – that the Eskom crisis is a self-inflicted injury.🔦 Full editorial here➡️eskom ANC disaster
An Eskom sign at the entrance to Eskom's Megawatt Park in Sunninghill, 25 August 2020. Picture: Michel Bega
As a state, South Africa is a disaster. Just look around you. So, the ANC deciding it should declare a national state of disaster to tackle the ongoing collapse of our electricity grid seems, at first glance, to be stating the obvious. As we learned from the previous national state of disaster declared in 2020 to cope with the Covid pandemic, such a move has far-reaching implications. We hope, this time around, we do not see our ANC comrades rallying to defend us from the threat, wearing their Cuban berets and energetically espousing “revolution”.
Lest we forget… Behind that silliness, though, was the sort of opportunity – through the emergency relaxation of normal government procurement processes – for the cadres to get looting in earnest.
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