We need to schedule Mantashe for some mouth-shedding

This just in from Planet Delusion, deep in the Bizarre galaxy, colonised by the ANC years ago: Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says we should stop moaning about power cuts… everybody around the world gets them.

Like Ukraine, Minister? Where the electricity in a few cities was knocked out by severe Russian shelling in response to their battlefield reverses? And which was restored in a few hours? Maybe the UK, where huge storms took out powerlines across the country? And where the electricity was back on within days… to remain on permanently?

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No, minister, the only places which have 15 years of unreliable power supply are inefficient kleptocracies, like ours, where thieving politicians and so-called civil servants have looted and destroyed once-functioning civil infrastructure.

Fortunately for you, you can point to countries currently in a power squeeze, because of factors outside their control. Yet, most of them would consider it a catastrophe if they had to deal with just one week of the sort of darkness we are forced to endure.

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To claim this is a global norm to try to cover up ANC incompetence and treasonous corruption and theft, is an insult to all thinking South Africans. We need to schedule you for some mouth-shedding.