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RW Johnson writes on South Africa's governance, power crisis and the ANC's promise for policy resolutions.
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The new ANC Secretary-General (SG), Fikile Mbalula, has told the party's policy conference that the government "must move decisively to implement conference resolutions to end load-shedding and stabilise electricity supply. Priority must be given to speeding up the resolution of the energy crisis, in particular undertaking critical maintenance at Eskom so we return existing generation capacity to reliable service". In particular Mbalula said that the newly elected NEC must act with urgency to "address the shortcomings, setbacks and reversals that threaten to undermine and erode democratic gains".

Mbalula is, of course, the most clownish of all the ANC's leaders – the decision to make him SG is pretty much death-wish stuff. But his declaration is interesting because it illustrates how completely the ANC leadership has failed to understand its own crisis. For there is, of course, nothing that the NEC can do by passing resolutions to solve the electricity crisis created by twenty-five years of continual ANC blunders, corruption and maladministration.

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