Green capitalism is not the solution to South Africa’s energy crisis
Through its numerous failures, the ANC and its business friends , have extracted more than a pound of flesh from workers and their families. The deliberate devaluing and collapsing of viable state-owned enterprises leading to thousands of job losses is but a case in point. Eskom’s inability to provide reliable electricity which is therefore throttling an already anemic economy, is perhaps one of the ANC government’s greatest historic failures.
This has also given rise to the unfortunate scapegoating of all foreign nationals as being responsible for criminality. This is because communities are frustrated by the slow pace of service delivery and by the prevalence of violent crime and the failure of the state to adequately address this.Eskom’s position is indefensible. The country is subjected to crippling rolling blackouts but South Africans are paying more for electricity.
The CSIR predicted that over 90 000 jobs would be lost because of the transition and yet there is still no social labour plan from the government to mitigate against this looming disaster.Furthermore, the union warned that these privately owned renewable energy projects were a vehicle to privatise energy generation at Eskom, and as a result, the cost of energy would increase. It was revealed in court papers that the REIPP project would cost the fiscus R1.
3. The government’s disastrous decision to allow big business to ‘self-generate’ by up to 100 MW. This is scandalous because the ANC government, which is also the erstwhile shareholder, is enabling the private sector to compete against Eskom, thereby fast-tracking the collapse of the entity. We recommended that this decision must be reversed immediately because government should not drive an agenda that results in Eskom losing much-needed revenue.
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