So we live in Africa ... and we have electricity issues. Load shedding and the impact thereof is such a hot news item at the moment as Eskom tries to keep the electricity grid stable. The traffic lights are out, it takes longer to get home, we're stressed, meetings go bad as the stress spills over and we can't open our electric gates and garages. Yet, in the midst of numerous messages from Eskom to conserve electricity to avoid more load shedding we seem to have a proliferation of the following:
Don't get me wrong ... it's all quite festive and pretty (as my wife tells me), but rather irresponsible.
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Of course you are right about being responsible given the current situation.
I would however like to see a comment about responsibility FOR the situation. Training, development, succession planning, transformation, budgetting and general managemnt seems to have been sorely lacking at Eskom over the past decade or so. This has cost our country millions. Add to that the cost to our country of Telkom's telecomms policies and one can quickly see how the parastatals have worked to stunt development and opportunity.
It seems to me that a few watts of power at a few private residences can bring a little cheer and pretty dark times. Perhaps corporate South Africa could be a little greener too by shutting down the lights and airconditioning at some of the corproate head offices at Sandon and other centres.
Your comment seems a little bit of a low-blow in the bigger scheme of things?
Kinda like how a little speeding every now and then ( lets say257km/h in particular) adds more merriment in the face of restrictive traffic laws?
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