2021 marks 15 years of load-shedding. Or, to put it more realistically, 15 years of rolling blackouts, broken promises, ratings downgrades and sheer incompetence and corruption on the part of the ANC government.
We have seen this before, with overburdened sewage treatment facilities because too many households have been connected without upgrading the treatment plant. And we see it with electricity generation, transmission and distribution, where thousands of new connections are made without providing additional generation, transmission and distribution capacity.
A culture of non-payment and a lack of political will to resolve this crisis have resulted in the enablers of this illegal activity acting with near impunity. The City of Cape Town, under the DA, has successfully traced and prosecuted hundreds of cases of illegal connections, cable theft and bypassing of meters through its highly effective Copperheads law enforcement unit. This is a model that should be rolled out nationally.
It proposed introducing competition among suppliers and giving South Africans the right to choose their own electricity supplier. Yet every time this is mooted , it is rejected as being “anti-transformation” and “promoting the interests of white monopoly capital”. The ANC government has forgotten the lessons of the past and imbibed the Kool-Aid of the radical left.
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