South Africa Load-Shedding: The Roots Of Eskom’s Power Problem

If you are looking to understand South Africa’s current struggles – it’s soaring crime and unemployment rates, its stubborn inequality and stagnant economy, its relentless corruption and crippling power cuts, and its broader drift towards what some fear could become a “gangster state” or even “failed state” territory – then this one act of industrial sabotage, at a coal-fired power station on the high plains east of Johannesburg, is a good place to start.