The power utility should have been privatised after the De Villiers commission in the 1980s
”, December 1). This is a simplistic accusation. No single person destroyed Eskom. It was doomed from its inception in 1923.
While many forget due to their rose tinted-goggles, Eskom’s own annual reports and historical newspaper archives reveal that it was not all that popular even before 1994. Escom was reported in the 1950s as failing to meet demand, and then going on to produce too much. The commission didn’t work, and Escom/Eskom became just Eskom and continued to charge too little for electricity, ensuring it couldn’t afford to retain engineering staff or build new power plants in time.
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