Alec Hogg's away in Davos and some genius at Moneyweb has posted
an article from the Citizen
claiming to have been written by a former consultant to our nationally beloved powerless utility, Eskom. He's now re-employed - hence his plea for anonymity. He lays the power-vacuum blame at the doorstep of white-skinned Eskom management in the 90s. Total balderdash.
How do I know? Simple: Neither Thabo Mbeki nor Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka would ever have apologised for government's unforgivable ignoring of Eskom's plea for capex to fund infrastructure development, if Mbeki could possibly have blamed anyone else. What more evidence do you need? The ridiculous assertions made by this anonymous poster are a (clearly quite successful) exercise in disinformation. He sucked in a whole bunch of people, produced a flurry of e-mails among readers, saying, 'The truth is really as follows....' and stimulated a mini racial slugfest to boot.
Kinda wonder if David Bullard might just be winding every one up a teeny bit! ;-) just before the weekend. Now all we need to complete the canard is to have Thabo say, 'Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I do recall.....' C'mon people. The left leg's the one with bells on it. Use your brains and discriminate. Just because it's in print (worse, in cyberspace) doesn't mean it's true!
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