BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso says South Africa is more than equipped to fix Eskom, but politicians keep hands tied.
Chief executive officer of Business Leadership South Africa , Busi Mavuso, says that the country has all the skills, expertise and capacity it needs to fix Eskom – the problem is that decisions about the company are being made at Luthuli House, the headquarters of the governing African National Congress .this past week, Mavuso said that huge delays at key power stations in South Africa – Kusile and Medupi – have been driven by crime and corruption.
“We have engineers galore, we have skills galore, and we have professionals galore. The problem is that you are put in that environment as an engineer, as the board, as the CEO, with both your arms tied behind your back and you are expected to box in a boxing ring,” she was quoted saying.
. De Ruyter made the claim several times – in the explosive interview that thrust corruption at Eskom into the spotlight earlier this year, his presentations to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and again in his book. Mavuso served as an Eskom board member during de Ruyter’s time as CEO, and was also privy to the controversial intelligence operation that he launched. She also confirmed previously that BLSA was one of the organisations that helped finance the operation.
According to de Ruyter, the operation gathered intelligence that pointed to high-ranking politicians and government officials being directly involved in corruption at Eskom.
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