Illustrative image | ANC banner. | A candle-lit house experiencing Stage 6 load shedding in Sterkspruit, Eastern Cape.
On Monday morning, spokesperson Sinawo Tambo reiterated the party’s promise that if elected into national government, it will stop load shedding within six months. Meanwhile, this coming weekend, the DA is also likely to use its manifesto launch to turn up the heat on the ANC. It has previously been a part of a series of court applications that: “The state must not rule out the possibility of sabotage which is aligned to major events in the country. There are many questions that ordinary people like ourselves ask about load shedding and how it is happening, and those questions point to the direction that it is very clear there is sabotage.
This would support claims made by former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, and others, that there was widespread corruption at Eskom power stations. And that this “sabotage” is aimed at increasing the amount of work for contractors and the amount of consumables that Eskom would have to use, thus generating invoices for suppliers.
All of this takes time, and often the biggest variable is how long it will take to cool down the tubes before a person can get into them. Considering how important load shedding is to voters, it is likely that ANC leaders will keep repeating this claim. This means that while Mbalula may be able to let off his own superheated steam fairly regularly, he will never be able to generate more electricity.No. When you lose the ability to protect your power stations, you open power generation to the market. They always had that option but refused to take it.
I we had competent leadership would were likely to appoint capable people and not steal vast portions of the funds, I would actually agree with you. But we need to adjust to reality here, which means keeping the ANC kleptocrats away from any nuclear build!“But we are saying, as the ANC, the state must up its gear in terms of investigating and looking at particular possibilities.” Fikile talks like there are two ANC’s; the party and the one in government. It is the same crime syndicate in both.