Ramaphosa: ‘Eskom has done well’ since 1994
Uhm, excuse me? President Cyril Ramaphosa is sure to infuriate more South Africans with his latest comments about Eskom.
If a week of pretty much non-stop load-shedding in the week leading up to municipal elections wasn’t enough. The latest comments from President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail are enough to leave anyone scratching their heads. Maybe not just scratching your head, but a kind of furious exasperated scratching. According to the president of the country and the ANC, while Eskom does have its problems, it has done well since apartheid ended.
Cyril Ramaphosa and the never ending Eskom saga
Ramaphosa made the following comments while campaigning for the ANC in Kagiso, west of Johannesburg. Should the country really still be grateful to the ANC for making electricity available to eveyone? Even after all these years.
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Electrify the votes away
Look, while Ramaphosa has a point about the ANC government having to make sure power was available for everyone from 1994. After more than 20 years, the bar surely can’t still remain so low when it comes to electricty?
It’s not just these comments from Ramaphosa and the ANC that have pissed people off.
The party is facing backlash over its operation of City Power in Johannesburg. Just before the elections, City Power claimed that it had secured private power plant energy to be able to avoid Stage 1 and 2 of load-shedding. Eskom said, not so fast.
The huge power problems in the metro (often 4 hours or more of blackouts) could be key in pushing voters away from the ANC.
So with load-shedding rearing its ugly head almost right up until election day, will the ANC take a beating at the poll. Or, will the ANC lights remain on?