Eskom expects we'll all forget the dark cold nights of the past and, in return, be happy to cough up the outrageous cost increases. Remember the bleak days when SA battled daily through Eskom load shedding? In those dark times, the metaphor of light at the end of the tunnel of corruption and incompetence seemed mockingly inappropriate, so far away did a normal national electricity supply seem. Looked at rationally, if not cynically, he and electricity generation expert Chris Yelland correctly point out that Eskom is not the sole architect of its good fortune. Eskom expects we’ll all forget the dark cold nights of the past and, in return, be happy to cough up the outrageous cost increases it wants from the national regulator to compensate for the loss of revenue from municipalities which are being stolen blind by illegal connections.