Why is it so difficult to fix institutions that have been run by the ANC for decades? Having spent a lot of time and effort (with many others) trying to do this, this post will share at least one important insight. Starting with the example of Eskom.
As everyone now knows, Eskom is controlled by criminal syndicates that make it impossible to save the institution. It is in its death spiral.
But this does not only apply to Eskom. It is only a matter of time before the truth about the ANC-criminal syndicates running other state-owned enterprises is fully exposed as well.
In fact, almost every sphere of government controlled by the ANC since the dawn of democracy, has been turned into a battle-field between interlocking networks of criminal syndicates, seeking to advance their own enrichment.
I thank my lucky stars that I became Mayor of Cape Town in 2006, when the ANC had not yet been in power in the City for long enough to strip the administration of all its skills or deploy cadres to do the syndicates’ bidding.
That is why it was a manageable challenge to arrest the decay and turn the Cape Town around to become a beacon of functionality (in comparison with every other Metro in the country).