By Mike Smith 13th of December 2014 It was only a matter of time. I was actually waiting for him to say it, but now he has finally said it. Zuma says: “Blame Apartheid for Eskom woes” President Jacob Zuma says our electricity crisis has its roots in apartheid. He says back then the electrification of suburbs was racially structured which resulted in only white areas being supplied with power. I wonder what else this lying piece of filth is going to flog out of the dead Apartheid horse. Maybe he should blame Apartheid that most of his brains ran down the inside of his mother’s legs. What is the truth about Eskom and Apartheid? It is absolute bullshit that townships didn’t have electricity. In fact they had massive floodlights about 20 meters high. Eskom was founded by white South Africans in 1923, expanded to become one of the 7 largest electricity suppliers in the world and since the mid 1980’s it had a 20% oversupply of electricity even after it was exporting electricity as far north into Africa as the Congo. Eskom had so much electricity it could lure big industrial companies like BHP Billiton to Southern Africa to operate Aluminium smelters (Alusaf in Richards Bay and Mozal in Mozambique) with attractive electricity prices and long term contracts. The Government is the only shareholder in Eskom. The ANC was warned by Eskom engineers during the late 1990’s already that SA would run out of electricity by 2007 and asked that the state should budget for the building of new power plants. Nobody ever listens to the engineers. The ANC scrapped the budgets and insisted that foreign private investors should be sought to invest in Eskom. Obviously this meant that they expected bribes to be paid to the ANC top brass. It is common knowledge amongst any foreign investors into South Africa that the starting bribe is 15% of the contract. These companies were either not willing to pay the bribes or they lost interest due to the fact that they could see that running Eskom, where only about 20% of the consumers pay, would not be economically viable. In 2006 the last of these investors resigned. Round about that same time Eskom ran out of electricity and the first load shedding started, because the ANC never built any new power stations, the existing ones were not properly maintained anymore and the skilled engineers and technicians had to leave the country due to the ANC’s racist policies of Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment. The ANC admitted that Eskoms failure was their fault and theirs alone. In 2007 President Thabo Mbeki apologized to South Africa for the Electricity crisis. Mbeki apologises for SA power cuts Eskom was right, govt was wrong - Mbeki In 2008 in his State of the Nation televised speech, Thabo Mbeki again admitted that government was responsible for the crippling power outages in South Africa and actually said that, This situation has precipitated the inevitable realization that the era of very cheap and abundant electricity has come to an end. Government at Fault in S. Africas Electricity Crisis, Mbeki Says Can you see? Mbeki actually admitted that the Apartheid era Eskom supplied abundant and cheap electricity to the entire country. They, the useless ANC, stuffed it all up.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:22:22 +0000
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