Consumers punished for going off the grid

Eskom and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa have a damned cheek. They want to punish the consumers for going off the grid. It is a sheer arrogance of power. You know what happens to people who abuse their power? They are driven off from power like the Syrian ruler Assad’s flight to Russia.Once it was the pride of Africa and one of the top power utilities in the world. But when the ANC came to power, it left the country powerless. Its policy of black empowerment saw the mass deployment of inexperienced, inefficient, …