Eskom is asking us to tolerate huge increases in the price of electricity, without being able to guarantee that the lights won’t be going off periodically for the next few years. Yet it and other state-owned entities (SOEs) have happily spent millions of rand on World Cup tickets for employees, customers, suppliers and other “stakeholders”.

South African taxpayers will be footing the bill for the president’s lifestyle for decades, writes Michal Snider