Fix what is preventing it from doing its job.
A general view of Tutuka Power Station in Standerton, South Africa. Picture: Gallo Images/Rapport/Deon Raath
It is absurd in the middle of the country’s worst electricity crisis that the man who was put in charge of Eskom during the Zuma years is now saying: “I failed to fix the current provider, well, let’s just build another one.”ALSO READ: The suggestion of a second electricity state-owned utility is also a sign of the dearth of ideas on how the ruling party wants to solve the myriad of problems the country is facing.
Scary as the idea might be, it is time to stop the fearmongering over privatising the entity as if that will guarantee that it works.
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