LETTER: What Business Leadership SA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso really said about Eskom
Statement was about being honest about the utility’s operational challenges, and not about improving its financial position by imposing eight months of load-shedding
In a promising article addressing the bias in the debate about who should bear the burden of economic austerity resulting from the poor state of the SA economy, Steven Friedman makes an incorrect claim to the effect that Eskom board member and Business Leadership SA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso has advocated — in testimony to a parliamentary committee — eight months of load-shedding to improve Eskom’s financial position (“Those demanding job cuts won’t tolerate power cuts (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-11-05-steven-friedman-those-who-clamour-for-job-cuts-wont-tolerate-power-cuts/)”, November 5).
This claim is incorrect, because Business Day reported her as saying that if the board of Eskom could act without interference from the government, and could speak publicly about the dire operational failures of Eskom, she would be honest with the country and announce that, contrary to government’s reassurances, we will be facing another eight months of potential load-shedding....
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