Energy sector analyst Roger Lilley believes that the load-shedding crisis has cost enough lives that it should receive the same attention as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rotational power cuts are killing South Africans, and government should be treating it with the same seriousness as it did the Covid-19 pandemic.“People are dying differently. They are dying because they are losing their jobs. They are dying emotionally, as it were,” Lilley said in an“They’ve lost trust in this government. They’ve lost trust in the country and yet the minister responsible for Eskom… is silent on the matter.
“The concern that I have is that over the last 15 years that we’ve had load-shedding… we have lost so many jobs, we have lost so many opportunities for business growth, we have lost so many people and businesses to other countries,” Lilley said.Lilley said another big problem was the finger-pointing between different government entities meant to help solve the problem.
“Something like two-thirds of the revenue received every year from the sale of electricity goes to [paying the debt off], and they can’t survive on what’s left,” he added.
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