The Freedom Front’s parliamentary spokesman on Public Enterprises Pieter Groenewald said Lynne Brown was misleading parliament, when she created the impression that Eskom was being well managed during the budget debate on her department this week.
Groenewald did acknowledge that there had been an improvement from Eskom but added that the level of service delivery from the State-owned Enterprise was still unsatisfactory, despite load-shedding being addressed.
“The question should rather be asked why there had been load-shedding in the first instance,” Groenewald told parliament this week.
“It was the ANC government’s incompetence which had initially led to load-shedding having to be implemented, which cost South Africa’s economy billions of rand,” added Groenewald.
The Freedom Front MP made particular reference to a report submitted to Thabo Mbeki in 1998, indicating what needed to be done to adequately address the rising energy demands in South Africa.
“In 1998 Eskom placed a comprehensive development programme on the desk of Thabo Mbeki, then deputy president, and urged that action should be taken to prevent load-shedding becoming a reality in 2007 already. He wiped this off the table,” explained Groenewald.
“It has to be asked whether the government is unwilling, or merely not capable of planning ahead. Why does government wait each time until there is a crisis before it acts? The fact that Eskom is now functioning, comes at a price, and it is the consumer that has to pay for it,” he said.
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