@ReleGlo Is he the one who hired him?
To tell him that his duties are not to ask questions,but to just scan🥲,what an absolute idiot.
This was sad to watch ,hopefully the security guard doesn’t deter from this interaction and continues to do what the company hired him for.
Once upon a time, South Africa had some of the cheapest electricity on Earth.
In 2000, Eskom charged around 14 cents per kWh. Your R100 could buy you 700 kWh.
Not 29.
That cheap electricity was built on apartheid-era power stations producing more than the country needed. Cheap coal. Excess capacity. Low prices.
But nobody invested in new infrastructure.
By the mid-2000s, government was telling Eskom: stop building, you have enough.
Eskom warned them they were wrong. In 2007, President Mbeki publicly admitted the mistake.
That same year, load shedding started.
In a panic, government approved two massive coal plants: Medupi and Kusile. Budget: R163 billion combined.
Final cost: over R450 billion.
Why? State capture. Inflated contracts. Looting at every level. The former Eskom CEO revealed corruption was costing the utility R1 billion per month. Multiple executives arrested. A Swiss engineering firm admitted to paying bribes and repaid R2.5 billion.
Someone had to cover that R450 billion.
It was always going to be you.
Since 2000, Eskom tariffs have increased over 1,500%. Inflation over the same period? 180%. Then your municipality adds its own markup on top.
Your electricity did not get better. It got expensive because connected people stole.
R100. 29.2 kWh. The monthly invoice for state capture.
South Africans, after the foreigner issue we need to work together to pressure government to drop the petrol price to R15 a litre.
It’s due for a review and a drop is on the cards, but we must be very vocal!
People talk about a tax revolt, but if we start by pushing for cheaper fuel, removing the tax scam added to the price, it will reduce rising costs on everything else and then consumers and businesses can start to breath.
South Africans, at what point do we admit that we have normalised failure?
How do we accept a system where citizens can lose up to 41% of their salaries to tax, yet corruption continues to thrive, rural roads remain undrivable, municipalities collapse, and local councillors operate with little to no accountability?
Taxation without visible service delivery is not governance; it is betrayal.
This country does not lack money. It lacks ethical leadership, consequence management, and political will. We cannot keep comparing ourselves to countries like Qatar and pretending the difference is luck. The difference is leadership, planning, discipline and accountability.
South Africa deserves a government that respects every rand taken from its people. The amount of tax we are paying is just insane😭💔
The Premier of KZN hosted a Summit to talk about undocumented migrants, I was one of the panelists! Amongst the panel were these gentlemen who are from Pakistan and Bangladesh who came to the engagement to state their position on their migrants in SA, they came to greet me and asked for a picture and I turned to the camera and smiled because it’s the polite thing to do when you are engaging people because you don’t hate them, you just want the laws of your country respected! But Ofcos EFF members don’t work on truth just lies and propaganda!