If we can save Eskom by creating a second version of it, why not extend the idea to other organs of state? After all, the government is a maths wizard when it comes to multiplication, so it may as well multiply itself.
I’m a little confused. It was reported that Minister of Fossil Fuels Gwede Mantashe declared the solution to South Africa’s energy problems is to create a, and it was further reported that President Cyril Ramaphosa had endorsed this idea when he addressed the South African Communist Party on the occasion of … what? A rare moment of leadership change, I believe.
But I don’t think we should take that walking-back very seriously. What I think we should take seriously is this idea of a second Eskom, or you might say the Double Eskom Idea, and I believe we should thoughtfully extend that idea further into the mechanics of the South African body politic. The ANC government’s response to failures of governance, or government incapacity, is more governance — just as its response to laws that everyone breaks because they’re never enforced, or the cops can’t catch the lawbreakers, is more laws.
Yes, it increases the state’s expenditure on hirelings, which is already badly out of control, but that’s something we can get the International Monetary Fund to worry about some time in the future, when the government is so deep in debt that it has to go begging for some structural adjustment. So that’s the pattern. The trick would be to turn this to the advantage of the long-suffering citizenry.
Competition is the key idea here, as it would be in a country committed to development, which is to say capitalism. This may be an idea that has not fully penetrated the brains of all South Africans, especially not truckers and taxi drivers, but it is necessary to keep harping on it or we’ll never drive that development, will we?
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