When the full history of the ANC in government is written one day, one of its biggest governance failures will be Eskom and its failure to continue providing uninterrupted electricity to the people of South Africa and its economy.
Last week, our people and the economy suffered through Stage Four load shedding, with blackouts happening at least twice a day for most people. In many places, so bad is the infrastructure that it simply does not come back. In Eldorado Park, this led to bitter protests after they were left without electricity for more than a week.
ANC members on the committee objected, saying they had not blamed the current leadership, while the Scopa chair, the IFP’s Mkhuleko Hlengwa, was furious. He said that Mavuso had not conducted herself properly. She left the meeting, with more angry words exchanged between them.The department of Public Enterprises, which had appeared to be silent on load shedding until that time, said it found her conduct “regrettable” and “unbecoming”.
It was the Japanese company Hitachi that won the contracts to build the boilers at Medupi. The ANC investment vehicle Chancellor House was a shareholder in Hitachi SA .Then, during the Zuma era, people such as Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh and Matshela Koko ran Eskom. They have all been exposed and credibly accused of corruption in various forms and are certain to have findings made against them in the incoming Zondo Commission’s report on Eskom.
It may also be important to remember who appointed her in the first place. It was not current Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.She was appointed early in 2018 along with the rest of the present board, just after Ramaphosa had taken over as leader of the ANC, but before Jacob Zuma had been removed as president. His appointment of the new Eskom board was one of the first signs that Ramaphosa was asserting himself.
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