Alec Erwin, South Africa’s Minister of National Embarrassment and Public Calamities, is best known for saying that someone had sabotaged the Koeberg Power Plant by throwing a bolt into the one of the generators, and then saying that, actually, he had never said that at all.
Now he’s back from his Christmas holidays, to tell us that we are in the midst of a national electricity emergency, and that we had better switch off our lights when we are not using them.
Thank you Minister, that is excellent advice. I for one will certainly be switching my lights off, as soon as the power comes back on for long enough for me to turn them on in the first place. Hey, what’s this bolt doing in my fuse-box?
