South Africa

It's quite simple really - when you make a mistake, you take responsibility for it. We're not talking rocket-science here, it's as easy as falling on your own sword, a mia culpa or a simple "my bad". What it certainly isn't is an advanced session of passing the buck or imploring people not engage in the blame game. I'm sure you know where I'm heading with this. The faux "press-conference" that Alec Erwin and Eskom CEO Thulani Gcabashe held this week had enough hand wringing and looks of pained "oh-my-goodness" outrage to put a Papal Mass to shame. These two men of "industry" (I use this term extremely loosely) would give the cast of "Law an Order" a run for their money with their supposed "concern" and exhortations that they are honestly doing everything in their power to make sure things are remedied ASAP.

Spare me the act. Thulani your BS speech about people needing to conserve power by making sacrifices looks like hypocrisy of the highest order when you pocketed all those millions in bonuses. As for Alec "I never said sabotage" Erwin, his blatantly politically opportunistic speech last week has erased any (not that there was a lot anyway) credibility he has in dealing with this crises.

What should have happened in the press conference was a good 'ol Japanese style "we stuffed this up royally". Instead what we got was another  condescending speech from those in power who seem to think that with great power comes zero responsibility.

What a farce!