Government related departments seem to believe that they do you a massive favour for arriving in the office in the morning.

My recent expereince with the country’s new electronic national traffic information system (eNaTIS) is testament of it. Don’t get me wrong South Africa is a wonderful place but
striving for improvement is the only way to go.

As an isolated(small) voice, caring is overrate and to stressful – somebody need to be willing to listern !!

So baked beans and generators sound like a good call

Most of Eskom’s really key clients (I am talking the mines, especially the Platinum mines) are not even worried about electricity. If they’re not, then neither am I.

This problem at our home this past week was a distribution problem. The problems in Cape Town have been generation problems. These are very different problems, with very different symptoms, and very different solutions.

Generation requires more power supply and power stations. Eskom is well on track to covering all requirements for the next few decades.

Distribution runs through intermediaries – mainly municipalities. This is where the crisis is in South Africa, with completely incompetent management (not my opinion – that’s what the government’s own skills audit of municipalities and local government said!). Maintenance of local level infrastructure is critically behind.

I think this should be the job and manifesto of our next president. To make government work at a local level!!

But let’s not spend all out money on candles, generators and baked beans this winter. That’s an over reaction. Well, that;s my prediction anyway. And, remember, I don’t live in Cape Town