Duarte also indicated that the ANC was going to put out a statement saying they were fed up with loadshedding and that we needed to figure out what is going on. Why, they wanted to know, do we even have loadshedding? I wanted to say, ‘Guys, you were in control for twenty-eight years and now you want to wake up and ask what is going on. We’ve had loadshedding for the past twelve years.’ The lack of self-awareness from the ANC was astonishing. It was as though they didn’t realise that they were the government that put in place the policies that led to loadshedding. It was as if all these bad
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