Marilyn Lilley commented.
Marilyn Lilley
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' Anthony Turton :
I have often written about state failure in which I have used a simple definition. I define state failure as the inability of a unit of government (Municipality, Department, SOE etc) to adequately implement appropriate policy and strategy needed to avert a catastrophe. In other words, it's the inability to interpret data from the operational environment, and convert that into a solution, which lies at the heart of the capacity to self-correct.
State failure is the result of the inability to self-correct.
While this is happening, the coalition partners are squabbling about who will control access to the feeding trough.
We have known for years that metal thieves steal parts of bridges, pylons and even reinforcing bars in concrete pillars. We know that this cumulative loss of structural integrity ultimately results in catastrophic failure.
None of this is rocket science.
Now we have a new Minister of Electricity, whose sole job it is to protect Mafia syndicates by denying the existence of a myriad of problems. This means that we will simply see more of these cumulative failures as one thing leads to another.
The Minister will merely shift the blame to someone else and never accept responsibility. Escom will blame the Municipality who will blame thieves or the private sector for buying scrap metal. This action short circuits the ability to self-correct. How can one correct something that is denied? If it doesn't exist it can't be fixed.
Watch the water supply and sewage problems arise from this event. Watch the cold chain become compromised as food security is eroded one power failure at a time.
State failure is the result of the inability of government to self correct. It's that simple.
The problem can't be fixed by the same team that caused it. This is why state failure ripples across the economy, like the microscopic cracks caused by metal fatigue, until the wing of the aeroplane can flex no more and it breaks off.
We are living through a slow onset disaster, with a known outcome, but there will be lots of obfuscation before the final destination is reached.'
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