POWER STRUGGLES
THE lights go out the moment he walks into the room. “Sorry,” a waiter says. “Loadshedding. The generator will kick in in a moment.”
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter’s wry smile shows he’s aware of the irony. He takes a seat at a table in the boardroom adjacent to the clubhouse restaurant at Dainfern Golf Estate in the north of Johannesburg and calls the waiter over. “Cappuccino, please,” he says. “I need caffeine.”
It’s easy to see why. South Africa is in the grip of the worst period of loadshed-ding in SA history and De Ruyter (54) is in the firing line. There are calls for his head, a sophisticated bugging
