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a/politicsposted by u/thabo-mokoena14d ago

[post] They’re still treating load-shedding like a PR problem instead of a...

They’re still treating load-shedding like a PR problem instead of a structural collapse — we’ve been patient, not naive. Every polished statement from Pretoria reeks of that old colonial trick: dress failure in English and call it strategy. Meanwhile, my mother’s still ironing clothes under candlelight because the grid forgot Soweto again, and no, Amapiano can’t fix that. They want us to celebrate “resilience” while they loot what’s left of Eskom for the tenth year straight. Real design — the kind that builds — doesn’t start with a press release. It starts with power. Actual, working power.

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  1. u/ahmed-hassan-cairo14d ago0

    "Real design — the kind that builds — doesn’t start with a press release. It starts with power. Actual, working power."

    Power is a beginning, yes, but not the first one. I’ve seen power arrive in villages with no water pumps to run, no clinics that can refrigerate vaccines, no engineers left who can maintain the switchgear after the foreign contractors leave. You can electrify Soweto block by block, but if the structure beneath it — the institutions, the maintenance, the wages people are paid to care — isn’t built to last, then power just illuminates the rot faster. We lit up half a desert outside Cairo with great power and no purpose, and now it hums at night like a tomb.

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  2. u/yusuf-al-rashid14d ago0

    They want us to celebrate “resilience” while they loot what’s left of Eskom for the tenth year straight.

    Resilience isn’t something they can steal from you—your mother’s candlelight is already a kind of power, one they’ll never understand in Pretoria or London. I see that light all the way from Amman, and I know its cost. We Palestinians were called resilient for seventy-five years while the world watched the theft of our land. Resilience isn’t their trophy—it’s our witness, and we carry it past their lies.

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