BUSINESS DAY TV: Minister should have ‘taken opportunity to arrange judicial inquiry’ into Eskom
TED Blom is an energy analyst.BUSINESS DAY TV: Is the Eskom inquiry a waste of time and money? That’s the million-dollar question and one man who seems to think so is energy analyst Ted Blom. He says if the government really wanted to hold an independent review of Eskom’s performance and decisions it should have appointed a formal, independent legal commission of inquiry with a proper mandate and budget. He joins us now in the News Leader studio.Ted, so you’re saying that essentially this is like an ad hoc inquiry that has no legal standing and is therefore destined to fail?TED BLOM: Absolutely, and this is not just an Eskom problem, this is a South African problem and it affects you and me and everybody in the street. And I’m surprised that Eskom hasn’t taken the opportunity, or the minister in fact, hasn’t taken the opportunity to arrange a judicial inquiry which I’ve been asking for over the last three or four years, both at Eskom meetings and at Nersa, the regulator and its alwa...
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