Why is there no competion? And why are sub qualified people allowed to be hired. AA is stupid in this country with the population of 77% black to 9% white (just googled that).
No competition because of monopoly and part of the monopoly is actually that Eskom will always have electricity available for paying customers. Eskom broke this agreement since 2008 meltdowns started yet apparently contracts only get enforced if you are the end user and not the provider.
Only after a few years of meltdowns post 2008 did Eskom start to entertain vaguely the idea of allowing IPP's to start setting up shop but this is just to save face and not that Eskom at all want these IPP's to operate.
Btw dear writer, Eskom is a private company except they operate as a private monopoly with their hands in the government pocket because the government still remains a majority share holder.
Eskom is not a completely owned and operated government utility like pre 94, please get your facts straight before commenting on State run enterprises vs private enterprises providing electricity.
The fact that Eskom up to 94 (and for the most part Eskom is still using the same installations today) no tax payer automatically received shares in Eskom is laughable. Eskom were funded entirely by tax payer money up to 94 and after 94 they magically went private and all that tax payer money just went along with that move for free.
The issue with Eskom is that we have the worse outcomes for both scenarios, Government run and Privately run.
Eskom is trying to make profit at a private enterprise level while having infinite free cash handed to them from the government side of involvement.
If you were to cut the profit driven incentive out and only keep the government element then Eskom could easily operate better than it is right now.
If you were to cut the government incentive out then Eskom would be forced to operate better than it is currently otherwhise they will not turn a profit ever.
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