ESKOM turns 100 years old next month. And it should be a proud moment in our history. It is not.
In a different column I asked what happens to South Africa when the grid collapses. To do this we need once more to look at the Indlulamithi South African scenarios, which track future social, political and economic developments.
Are we going to continue on a neo-liberal policy and stay true to a gwara-gwara outcome or are we going to learn from Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, the engineer of former South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts and approximate towards a nayi-le-walk outcome?
On March 1 it will be exactly a century since Smuts, inaugurated