It may be time for Eskom’s board to resign or be fired, says Pravin Gordhan
The former finance minister says the Eskom board acts with ‘extreme arrogance’ at times, which is ‘remarkable’, given that it is supposed to be serving a state institution
On Tuesday, former finance minister Pravin Gordhan — an MP and a member of the public enterprises committee — said members of the Eskom board "have let SA down more often than not", and the time might have arrived for them to resign or be dismissed. Gordhan’s hard-hitting statements were made in an engagement of the committee with Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown, Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane and members of the Eskom board. Gordhan also called for a judicial committee of inquiry into developments at Eskom and a thorough forensic audit as to how decisions are made at the utility, which he said was far too important to become a personal toy in the hands of a few individuals. He said the Eskom board sometimes acted with "extreme arrogance" which was "remarkable" when they were supposed to be serving a state institution. The former minister’s comments were made during question time after Brown had made her statement about withdrawing her opposition to a court application by the ...
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