Daily Insider: SA society sick of ANC obfuscation – designing its own loadshedding fixes

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ANC cannot find the political will to fix loadshedding – so SA society will

We have expressive indigenous languages in SA. Including Afrikaans, which offers many unique homegrown words (think gatvol, vasbyt) and terms. Most descriptive for the current situation is "Boer maak 'n plan."

Except it's not just farmers, but wider society South African that's stepping up to 'maak 'n plan' on electricity. That follows a decade and a half of ANC incompetence, corruption and mismanagement at Eskom, landing the nation in an unprecedented power crisis. 

My colleague Mike Appel's interview with Connie Mulder (click here or on the image below) is a masterclass in understanding the whys and what next. It taps into the zeitgeist: thousands had watched the recording within a few hours of its publication.

Similarly, my interview yesterday with Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, who is tackling a witless bureaucracy head-on. In a fortnight, Cape Town will formally announce the purchase of electricity from anyone who can sell it to the city. And, says GHL, the ANC mandarins can 'take us to court' if they don't like it.

Hope springs.

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