Eskom is beyond repair: dumping it is a social justice imperative
The power utility's failures are sending our economy into a nosedive and taking the prospects of alleviating poverty and inequality down with it
15 December 2019 - 00:00
The president's bogus claim that Eskom is being sabotaged is as rusted as the bolt Alec Erwin left in one of the turbines at the Koeberg power station back in 2006. Wet coal, broken conveyer belts, sabotage and bolts in the turbines are the lies of a failed business and a distraction from the real question: what is the socioeconomic impact on the 30-million-plus South Africans living in poverty if we lose an estimated R5bn a day every time the lights go off?..
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