Performative politicians, curated protests and theatricalities that are insurrectionist in intent and meaningless in purpose are no substitute for the technical or engineering skills needed to get electricity flowing again.
, it should be stressed, over and again, that there is no substitute for the technical or engineering skills required to get electricity flowing again.The EFF’s leader, Julius Malema, has a right to lead his followers in public protest, but the cat is out of the bag. Malema’s main objective is to get President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign.
The problem of load shedding is now technical, though socially and historically it is arguably part of a decade-long drift towards greater decline of state and society.to imagine that we are approaching a point when electricity supply will be rationed.With the load shedding problem almost completely out of the hands of politicians — and to get political economic activity sustainably under way — we should probably not be surprised if electricity supply is rationed.
Because of the complexity of the problem — coal vs renewables, failing state-owned enterprises, corruption, maladministration, theft, nonpayment of utilities, ageing or failed infrastructure, social unrest, — all parties and the dreaded “vested interests” may have to negotiate at different “levels” with differing expectations.
Let’s elaborate a bit more.
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