The biggest factor that led to the escalation of the crisis within Eskom was that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as a result of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Affirmative Action (AA), Afrikaner skilled white electricians, This was due to an increase in the outflow of engineers and engineers from Eskom. The author argues that the ANC government's executive allocation policy is having an impact. (Ashley Cooper/Getty Images)
Despite the improvement in the load-shedding situation over the past two weeks, the tentacles of Eskom's years of corruption have sunk so deep that they may never be fully overcome, it writes. Ebrahim Harvey.
Race and skin color have gained increasing importance in our discourse over the past decade, in inverse proportion to the worsening socio-economic crisis. Therefore, following a media interview I gave two weeks ago, I felt it necessary to clarify the potentially provocative and misleading headline “White people should run Eskom”.
To begin with, I have raised and addressed the Eskom crisis in many columns and media interviews over the past five years. In a particular article in 2021, I argued that the biggest factor leading to the escalation of the crisis within Eskom was that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Eskom's Afrikaner skilled white electricians, technicians and engineers It was revealed that this was due to an increase in the number of people leaving the country. Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), Affirmative Action (AA), and the ANC government's cadre placement policies.
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