Whenever there is a crisis in South Africa, the first thing lazy members of the middle class commentariat do is to blame workers for having caused it. They also like to turn everything — the July 2021 riots, for example — into a national security issue.
As Eskom’s incompetent and clueless board and executive committee — none of these 18 people have a background in power generation — plunged the country into stage six load-shedding this week, the first thing they did was to blame the workers for having caused the crisis.Subscribe to the M&G today for just R30 for the first three months* to gain access to this story and all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.
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