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

Alec Hogg writes on the similar paths between Telkom's monopolistic fate and that of Eskom - a chaos soon to end, hopefully.
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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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