It was, but if you ask me, I think that is a red herring.
I think tptb do not want us going back onto fossil fuels. They probably know that their energy rations and the knock-on effects is a means to an end, which is the opposite of sustaining billions of people.
If you read between the lines of ADR's interview answers, it seems to me he is hinting that the sabotage is only one - minor - cause of the electricity supply problem.
He seems to be saying the journalists have to ask the right questions of the right people, and after all this time, they still haven't done so.
Nobody talks about the sovereign debt, in SA, and who is backstopping the ANC. Likely the ANC is being handed energy policy by unelected, outsiders. Same as everywhere else. And politicians around the world are being encouraged to go into debt so the creditors can come in a scoop up the collateral.... most likely in the form of sovereign resources/infrastructure and the obligation of legal harmonization.
They said right from the start they want to level the industrial world. #MauriceStrong
Of course it would be a massive get-out-of-jail-free card for them, the GRC, because they have been digging us into a massive debt hole for around 120 years and the inflation chickens are coming home to roost.