We have, I suspect, all heard it at least once before. Sir Humphrey Appleby, of the UK comedy series Yes Minister, explaining the four-stage strategy for getting out of a political jam.
Stage 2: We say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.Stage 4: We say maybe there was something, but it’s too late now.
Stage 3: Years later, the study comes out and says maybe we should do something but we just have to work out the externalities .Stage 5: It turns out that what we were doing was not the thing we were supposed to be doing, but we are going to carry on doing it.This last stage came to pass last week, when Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe told“It’s unfair to place blame on myself or the government.
As it happens, Mantashe has actually gone some way to achieving the first target, which makes it even more bewildering that he claims no responsibility for load shedding. The preferred bidders for the programme were announced a year ago. How could Mantashe forget? Trust me, SA has practically no competitive advantage in manufacturing solar panels locally. In fact, there is a competitive advantage in not producing panels locally, because both the US and China are using their citizens’ taxes to subsidise the production of solar panels. Buying Chinese solar panels is equivalent to Chinese citizens paying us their tax.
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