12 August 2022
Eskom’s monopoly must end
In 2022 alone, we have had a combined 673 hours of loadshedding (at time of writing); that is 28 days without power. Lights off, computers down, heaters cold during the cold of winter. And that is just so far. Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter claimed earlier this year that South Africans could face up to 104 days of power outages.