Ebrahim Patel of winter fashion fame, who also heads the trade & industry department, reminds one of Malusi Gigaba when he held the same portfolio and regularly appeared on TV after a run-in with Eskom’s then CEO, Brian Dames.

Medupi and Kusile were running behind schedule and way over budget, and Dames was the guy Gigaba saw as his fixer. By now we all know he wasn’t...

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