> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent? Demand for electricity consistently went up over the past 20+ years, with no matching increa

> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent? Demand for electricity consistently went up over the past 20+ years, with no matching increase in generation capacity. Maintenance of current power plants hasn't been great either, and the supply/demand situation is precarious such that if any one of the power generation plant is offline for maintenance, there are likely to be compensatory blackouts somewhere.