Mr Gordhan, Eishkom isn’t a natural disaster

A few nights ago on news channel eNCA, I heard Eishkom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer and board chairperson Jabu Mabuza, as well as Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan trying hard and failing miserably to explain the rolling power outages.

By implication, in the case of Eskom, no one gave a damn about regular check-ups, and now we have infrastructure that is barely fit for purpose.So it was rather convenient for both Mabuza and Gordhan to refer back to his comments as if those were intended to be a total explanation of the hot mess we are in.

And so, while nominally apologising to the nation, when it was his turn to speak to the cameras, Gordhan was quick to emphasise the unseasonably wet conditions that have led to flooding at at least one power station and wet coal all over the place. Essentially, the subtext was that Mother Nature is an unpredictable beast and she is a key reason we are in this mess.

If Eskom isn’t an exemplary case of “failure”, then nothing can count as an unambiguous example of leadership failure. Not to be outdone with this abuse of language by Mabuza, Gordhan also decided to redefine a word, this time the word “crisis”. When asked whether we are experiencing a crisis, Gordhan declined an unqualified “yes” answer, opting for the Orwellian invention of a “manageable crisis”.

Beyond these economic disasters, I worry what the deeper implications for our democracy will be. A healthy democracy is one that can only sustain itself on the backs of people who have a stake in society, people who are living reasonably well even if they are not all fully flourishing.

You helping firing capable people BrianMbm1 and koko_matshela resulted in huge burden that the country has to endure and the blame is on u M&G. How I hate u

Eusebius And who said fat Eusebius's opinion matters?

Eusebius All true and clear, but missing a vital ingredient. One-party centralised control leads INEVITABLY to corruption and incompetence. The examples of the USSR and Venezuela are trite, but how about British Leyland?

Eusebius We don't have to like you in order to agree with you.... you are absolutely right.... miss your voice behind the mic 🎤

Eusebius Pravin Gordhan is there to Clean Up Rampant Corruption Jabu is there to Restructure Governance The Oprational Staff is there to See there is No Loadshedding and the Lights stay on If you have Saboteurs in your Staff what do you expect If you have Fight Back Groups what then

Eusebius Excellent Article Eusebius...

Eusebius Not a great fan of Eusebius but here he has it absolutely spot on 👍

Eusebius Its amazing how idiots try to intellectualize the failures of the past as if no one is to blame.

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