President Cyril Ramaphosa faced some tough questions during a public engagement in Sandton on Thursday.
Ramaphosa was asked one question which left him startled. A member of the audience asked him to describe one instance where his judgment was tested as a leader, further asking him to describe how he dealt with the situation.
The president used the opportunity to take a dig at his predecessor, who in 2017 used a controversial intelligence report to axe then-finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his team. "It was public record that he [Gordhan] was being removed on the basis of an intelligence report which in my view did not add up to much… A report that I believed was false was being used to remove [Gordhan]. The decision I then had to make was whether I'd keep quiet about something that I truly believed was incorrect. Then I broke ranks, and I spoke out. Doing so could have meant that I could have been fired myself," Ramaphosa said."Eskom is our current headache.
"We need to restructure Eskom and I think we are on to a good thing. Eskom is the only company in the country that has worked up a debt of R430bn. We are trying to work on a number of ways to work on this challenge… I would like to be in a situation where stage 4 load-shedding never happens again to South Africans."
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