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Despite the improved load shedding situation over the past two weeks, the tentacles of corruption at Eskom over many years have sunk so deep that it might never be completely overcome, writes Ebrahim Harvey.
Race and colour have become of increasing significance in our discourses over the past decade, in inverse proportion to the worsening socioeconomic crisis. It has therefore become necessary for me to clarify a potentially provocative and misleading headline that "Whites should run Eskom", following a media interview I did two weeks ago.
Let me start off by saying that I have raised and dealt with the crisis at Eskom in many columns and media interviews over the past five years. In one particular article in 2021, I made it clear that the biggest factor which led to a growing crisis within Eskom was the increasing exodus of skilled white Afrikaner electricians, technicians and engineers from it since the late 1990s and early 2000s, as a result of black economic empowerment (BEE), affirmative action (AA) and the cadre deployment policies of the ANC government.
