Boardroom Talk: What happened after Telkom’s monopoly ended shows what SA can expect on electricity

By Alec Hogg

You may think I'm clutching at straws, but personal experience tells me our Eskom turbulence will have a happy ending. Before you stop reading, as the Surrey ladies say, "bear with….."

At the dawning of the internet age here in South Africa, I threw everything into my online publishing startup, confident the global boom would be replicated in SA. The two-year-old startup was listed on the JSE in 1999. Allan Gray, Investec, Old Mutual, Coronation and others bought shares, agreeing the world was our oyster.

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