DA leader John Steenhuisen calls for privatization of Eskom and to allow competition

Addressing elderly people at the Woodgrove Retirement Village in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday morning, Steenhuisen also said the state owned power utility should be partly privatised because the government had no role in running a business.

“Don't think by putting more public money into it, it is going to be fixed. It will never happen because the model is wrong,” he said. He said municipalities should also be allowed to procure electricity directly from independent power producers. He said it was also “very” easy to deal with escalating debt that Eskom had as the national treasurer had convened an “excellent paper”.

“There is still life left in those, and you could turn them into entities that would be able to, for the foreseeable future, provide power to Eskom in a profitable way,” he said.

Interim leader is mad

We know after conference of nasrec bought by white billionaires that soes will be privatised

There are a lot of private companies that compete with SOEs. So please.

Also, why can't others just compete now? They want to compete by using Eskom's infrastructure? They must build their own grids!!!

Not gonna happen. Lebala John, lebala...

Who is jsteenhuisen ?

Looks like the DA is the ruling party in S.A. not ANC. Their President Cyril will surely listen to them

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