Eskom briefing on rolling blackouts nothing more than a disastrous PR stunt
18 October 2019
Eskom’s media briefing this evening on the rolling blackouts was nothing more than a publicity stunt. The horse has already bolted for the embattled power utility and nothing that it says now will qual the public dissatisfaction, and damage to the economy.
Eskom’s management is clearly out of its depth to deal with this crisis and its turnaround strategies have amounted to very little at a great expense to the people of South Africa.
The reality is that the public does not trust Eskom to keep the lights on, and worse, they do not trust a word Eskom has to say after it seemingly misled South Africans when it refuted the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) revelation that it had issued a warning to municipalities that power cuts were on the cards for the months of September and October.
The DA maintains that Eskom has known for some time that rolling blackouts were on the horizon and either failed or refused to come clean.