Former Eskom CEO and chairman's letter from 1999 illustrate how the ANC wrecked South Africa

[Jan]

Letters from Eskom CEO and chairman in 1999 show how the ANC destroyed South Africa

In 1999, former Eskom chairman Reuel Khoza and CEO Allen Morgan wrote letters for a time capsule to be opened on the power utility’s 100th birthday.

That day is today, 1 March 2023.

 

[FiestaST]

 

[dualmeister]

Awkward ...

 

[r00igev@@r]

We using candles and not electricity for the cake?

 

[2026]

This just highlights how much potential for south africa has been squandered.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

TB has disappeared so that is worth a few points

 

[Alexander the Straight]

Quite cool. Thankfully the capsule wasn't stolen.
Back then I suppose things were so well run that they could to do stuff like this.

 

[Iamn0tageek]

Where are these okes now?

Probably retired right?

Man this country is a shell of its former self

 

[JustAsk]

Damn...65000 workers in 1985? And it supplied power only to 10% of the population then. Eskom really was milked for WEE jobs back then.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Those opening few paragraphs ****ing broke me, haven't cried like that in decades

 

[RonSwanson]

Lekker BEE, AA and Transformation!

 

[Vorastra]

“The challenges facing us must surely have been met and overcome by the time you read this — challenges such as crime, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and disease,”

Bruh, the only thing fixed in 2023 is the RoR on these corrupt politicians' bank accounts.

 

[Bighit]

How was that prediction, that the surplus of electricity will have disappeared by 2007, only 1 year out.

 

[ShaunSA]

tl/dr/dc

 

[FiestaST]

This part in particular got me, oh how the mighty has karked the bed. Duck me.

 

[now05ster]

WMC puppets.

On a serious note, the one thing that we have going here in SA is our favourably comparable freedom of press, beating Australia and the US.

The result is the delicious good news local stories that we get to read about thanks to a series of great decisions made by our government.

 

[Inertia]

Wakanda 4 life

 

[Harmonic]

@TheChamp What are your thoughts? Spin us papa, we need some spinning

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

How would one describe the rate of change in the 25 years generally, is it equitable to the 25 years prior to 1999

 

[ThinkCentre]

I think we should have a nice election this year and see if we cannot get one party to have an outright majority to kill the ANC for once and for all! We will not only have to get more power stations, but we will also need more jails too!