Unstitching, unravelling South Africa

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South Africa’s government is at war. With itself.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on the podium from Parktown giving a preview of the ANC's LGE Manifesto and the ANC's election candidates | Picture: Twitter

Escalating acts of sabotage at Eskom last week brought us to the brink of stage 6 load shedding. That’s 10 hours without electricity daily. Now, it seems he was right, after all. SA is seeing a merging of criminal and political agendas that makes the country vulnerable to a guerilla-style campaign of targeted violence.There was sufficient capacity to seamlessly adapt to these puny attempts to create havoc.

Thousands of kilometres of overhead cables, signalling wires and masts, as well as rail lines and sleepers, have been stolen. Entire railway stations have been dismantled, brick by brick, and carried off, without any arrests.

 

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