Bruce Whitfield and Dr Iraj Abedian discuss the 'silent' cost of 15 years of load shedding, with no end in sight.
As the President prepares to meet his Cabinet on Wednesday, Bruce Whitfield interviews Dr Iraj Abedian, CEO of Pan-African Investments and Research Service.- Dr Iraj Abedian counts the "silent" cost of 15 years of load shedding - "Government need to understand the gravity of the situation"As South Africans are painfully aware, Eskom had to ramp up load shedding up to Stage 6 on Sunday before scaling back to Stage 5 on Monday.
Dr Abedian says it is very difficult to put a number on the real cost of load shedding over the past fifteen years. Any number would terribly underestimate, using statistical techiniques because it just does not take care of how much the country's brand has suffered, how much the government brand has suffered and how much the citizens have lost confidence in the democratic order and their democratic government.
People have two means of expressing their loss of confidence says Dr Abedian, who they vote for in the next election and where they build their future.
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