Alec Erwin Shifts The Blame Over Blackouts
Here’s a few quotes from Alec Erwin from a talk given at the University of Pretoria referring to Eskom’s lack of power generation capacity leading us to a a few years of intermittent blackouts:
All of us have recently experienced the almost soul-searing shock that Eskom is not absolutely infallible… and that is a lesson that time and time again virtually every major enterprise in South Africa is going to learn in the next few years
The main obstacle to our own success is our own minds. We have to be confident we have to think hard about growth.
There’s only one small teeny tiny detail he’s left out and that’s the fact that between 2001 and 2004 the National Energy Regulator expressly forbid Eskom to build any new power generation plants despite their repeated requests to do so. But of course major governmental blunders like that are no one’s fault.