No logical person can refute Chris Logan’s points (“Soaring salaries have wrecked Eskom”, August 7). Yet I had to listen to Pravin Gordhan unconvincingly try to explain on the radio why he did not support the CEO of Eskom, who was trying to rein in Eskom’s labour costs in 2018.
With a well-organised plan using state security resources to protect the assets, the government could have stared down these overpaid, underworked employees. Yet he gave them a three-year 7% increase when inflation was at 4%. That cost Eskom R15bn...
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