Fin24's Andrew Kenny wrote:

And most unpleasant of all, we must realise that blackouts and power cuts will be with us until 2017 or beyond.

Check out his full article at http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2238346

The really sad truth is that, irrespective of the politics and whose to blame, we screwed! Power stations take really long to build and hopefully our economy wont take such a huge hit during the black outs.

If you ask me Government and Eskom should give the whole country free electricity for 1 years. SARS and the Treasury are quite well equipped to take a knock. They been cleaning us out for the last couple of years. And if they can spend 50 Billion on stadiums the government can surely subsidise on Electricity. They suck at crime, leave us with our lights?

Anyhow, Happy Hunting in the Dark fellow Africans...

I can see 2010 coming, the world watching the soccer finals and parts of SA without lights to watch it.