Eskom currently sells less electicity than it did in 1994.

The only reason that we have not had load shedding is that owing to the ANC's abysmal mis-management of the economy, economic growth has been either moribund or non-existent.

Had we been growing at the rate of Malaysia, Singapore or even Ghana or Botswana, demand for electricity would have exceeded supply capacity and load-shedding would have been the order of the day.

Not performing disaterously is not reason for acclaim - it is like SAA Pilots demanding a performance bionus because they did not crash any planes this year!