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"One repeated theme of the memoir
Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside
Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s troubled power
utility, Eskom, is that “negligence and carelessness had become cemented into
the organisation”.
Dirt piled up at even the newest power stations until it damaged equipment,
which stopped working – and some equipment disappeared beneath a layer of ash.
Integrity had been displaced by greed and crime:
Corruption had metastasised to permeate much of the organisation.
As a political scientist who has, among other topics, followed corruption and
kleptocracy, this book ranks among the more informative.
De Ruyter (or his ghost writer) delivers a pacey, racy adventure thriller.
Chapter after chapter reads like a horror story about Eskom, whose failure to
generate enough electricity consistently for the past 15 years has hobbled the
economy.
The book is also a sobering indication that parts of South Africa now fester
with organised crime.
This book merits its place alongside
How to Steal a City and
How to Steal a
Country. These two books chronicle how corruption undermined respectively a
city and a country to the level where they became dysfunctional."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
