What you are not understanding is that it is not the line losses that are being covered. It is yet another dirty trick to pay off the foreign loans, the same way they have hiked up car taxes and toll taxes and imposed agri income tax and taken all these other measures to increase govt income. Yet I do not see one TENNY WEENY step the govt has taken to reduce it own expenditure.
Between 2008 and today what huge industrial expansion took place that suddenly landed this country into a load shedding situation. Load shedding has single handedly destroyed the industrial base of this country. With the closure of countless manufacturing units, we should have excess power. But no some smart politician went into the rental power unit crap and really mucked everything up.
To put it in the simplest of terms, a house hold can be compared to a county. The man earns a salary can be compared to the govt's earnings. Kids going to school to the govt's education expenditure. Paying the salary to the cook of driver or cleaning lady is equated to the govt servant salaries. You get the picture. Now let us talk of a situation where the salary brought in by the man is not adequately covering the cost of running the house hold. Is going to the bank to take a loan the first thing done by the head of the house hold??? No it is the last thing to do. The first thing families do is to find ways to cut expenses. For our govt it is the last thing to cut expenses and first thing to go get yet another loan.
I don't have many more years to live, what burns me up is why is should I be forced to continue to feed this madness.