Cape Town - For too long government, Eskom and electricity customers have been complacent in the belief that the old way of doing things is adequate.
The reality is quite different, and it is disingenuous for the president of South Africa to paint the picture that the electricity supply problems currently being experienced are primarily a result of the apartheid era, and that government and Eskom are somehow victims of their own success.
Indeed, the plethora of initiatives now trying to chart a way forward through the electricity crisis are a reflection of the totally inadequate attention that has been given to energy and electricity policy and planning for two decades.