Don’t restructure Eskom – restructure society

WHAT is the modus operandi of state capture and state dysfunctionality? The politicians and top officials connive to get rid of the honest top managers who ask too many questions by instituting spurious charges.

If you are honest and keep quiet, you can keep your job. Officials are either suspended, forced to resign or are fired. A spate of suspensions, resignations and dismissals of top managers is a sign that the institution is captured.

AA (Affirmative action) is the next problem. AA is a system of a sudden replacement of white expertise with inexperienced blacks.

This has been especially damaging to Eskom, the NPA, Sars and the municipalities.

The next problem is that the organogram is changed to include hundreds of extra posts which are totally unnecessary. Therefore a large percentage of government workers are idle.

The next problem is B-BBEE. This is the cause of the shoddy workmanship we find throughout construction sites around South Africa, be they Medupi, Kusile, the housing projects, roads, etc.

A tender is not seen as an act of service delivery, it’s seen as a vehicle for looting. So the small tenders go to the people with the highest points scored.

Whether they can deliver is never properly considered. The large tenders go to friends or family of the ANC.

Sometimes nothing is delivered and the tenderer is paid. That is why Eskom will never be saved by breaking it up into three parts.

Only a fundamental restructuring of society will work (including privatisation), so the looters are sent to jail, the current format of AA and B-BBEE are redesigned etc.

This will only happen when the ANC itself is booted out of the government.