WHILE residents of Lavender Hill and Steenberg were protesting against prepaid meters and Cape Town City officials sought to blame Eskom for tariff increases — some 20 000 Capetonians attended a two day 'Solar & Storage Convention' at the CT...
Tag: Eskom
Organised crime, Eskom monopoly, De Ruyter en Swart.
ALARMING accounts of several crime syndicates operating within Eskom have arrived on the heels of similar findings made by the Zondo 'Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State'. Judge Raymond Zondo's investigation...
Dear Mr Gordhan, Eskom is a ‘public bad’, not a ‘public good’
IN A PIECE published in the Daily Maverick, Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan appears to respond to an earlier piece written by myself and published here and in the Cape Argus. The example of Telkom deregulation which I have raised, on more than one occasion, is most certainly taken ver...
Flogging an Eskom dead horse? You’ve got it all wrong
SO LONG as this country myopically persists with it's strange obsession in maintaining the Eskom energy monopoly, there will be load-shedding and blackouts. Consumers desperately require choices in energy provider, options on who can connect their home grid, to power the toaster and microwave ove...
Blame for the energy crisis needs to be placed fairly and squarely upon the failed ideology of the ANC and its coalition partners.
In many respects the ANC policies of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and its flipside Radical Economic Transformation (RET) resemble the policies of Nico Diederichs’ ‘reddingsdaadbond’ whose Nationalists of the 1940s viewed the state as the primary instrument whereby the Afrikaner capitalist wou...
Socialist complexity at heart of Eskom’s problems.
WHEN Medupi and Kusile were announced by our government in 2004 and 2007 respectively, the two coal-fired mega-projects were both seen as emblematic of South Africa's democratic progress — key to the ruling alliance and its plans for the future. The ruling labour-left coalition was at the...