I am astounded to once again read the spin-doctor approach to a crisis by the municipality.
And I quote last week’s Paarl Post: “Drakenstein is investigating ways of generating or purchasing alternative energy to help alleviate the sting of Eskom load shedding.
“In the meantime we are rolling out programmes such as installing Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) equipment at our traffic signal installations as well as generators at our water and wastewater plants.”
It is astounding that the only concerted effort the local municipality has made in the past few years that load-shedding has become a harsh reality is to install UPS power supply at traffic lights!
This is typical of the municipality which is permanently caught up in bureaucratic foot dragging.
Municipalities such as Stellenbosch have been far more resilient in the face of this crisis with massive installations done of solar power, and so on.
While they are committed to getting off the Eskom grid Paarl municipality does not seem to want to move forward on this very serious issue.
