Lights will stay on for ANC’s national conference

We can’t wait for 16 December because from then, until 20 December, we will have no load shedding. How can we be so sure? The ANC’s national elective conference starts then, that’s why…

Power outages have a strange way of sorting themselves out whenever our ruling party needs to look good, so who’s to say next week will be any different?

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Maybe that’s why Eskom imposed stage 6 blackouts yesterday – to stockpile diesel for the open-cycle gas generator plants so they can bolster the perpetually shaky national grid so that at least the lights stay on for the ruling party bunfight at Nasrec.

In a time when Eskom shuts down so regularly and there seems to be a basic inability to get things right, no wonder people will speculate and go down the road of conspiracy theories.

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Why so many breakdowns – even in comparatively new plants? Could it be that Eskom has become the battlefield for sundry different groups of thugs within the ANC? Who benefits from keeping coal long into the future? Who benefits from the supply of diesel? Who will make money if “powerships” are hired?

One thing’s for sure though: the ANC has brought “a darker life for all…”