As a follow up to my earlier post it now seems that it is Bobby Godsell who was pushed resigned in the end and Jacob Maroga is back in charge at Eskom. Well at least someone got kicked out of Eskom but I doubt it will change anything. I do not care if Robert Mugabe or Pol Pot runs Eskom, I only want cheap electricity delivered to my house effectively and efficiently. However this whole fuck-up at Eskom is, once again, a classic example of what happens when politicians get involved and put politics above reality.
And in Eskom’s case it is probably no exception. Bobby Godsell had a simple plan to get Eskom going again and presented it to the Board. On the other hand we saw Jacob Maroga primarily bitching and moaning about politics in the company which somehow caused Eskom to be in the state it is in, primarily race based politics. Well Mr. Maroga is correct but he should have stated the whole truth: It is politics that sits at the root of the rot in Eskom – finish and klaar. Just look at the qualifications and history of Mr. Maroga and that of Mr. Godsell – Mr Maroga, on paper, should be light years ahead in sorting out the crap at Eskom…
But nope this is South Africa where the obsession-with-race-virus from the previous government has infected the new government just as badly. I say it again: The number one problem facing South Africa, throughout its history: Politics and its loathsome practitioners called Politicians. Mind you, it is a global problem… just look at every major war that was started or every major screw-up ever: Yip politics and politicians. And then it is always left up to the man on the street to pick up the pieces and pay the price.
I just wonder if there will ever be a revolution against the “political classes”? Hoof all the politicians out of government buildings – force them to go clean toilets, sit in the dark without electricity, fight their own wars, treat themselves for disease etc… and horror above horrors, force them to work for their own meals.
Anyway, good luck to whomever is going to run Eskom and do me a favour: Tell the politicians to take a hike, get your costs down and your service levels up because in the end it WILL be the poor who are going to suffer the hardest because politicians are playing games again.
O and could someone please let me know when ANCYL puts out a press release, it is bound to be a pearler.
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