LETTER: Ethics at Eskom a matter of life and death
Job ad says new CEO must be ‘a leader with unquestionable integrity and ethics’
06 February 2023 - 15:32
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The Eskom CEO job ad hits the right buttons. “A leader with unquestionable integrity and ethics.” Except anyone applying for the job would know if they strenuously applied ethical procedures in Eskom they could be dead within a month.
Corrupt networks are deeply entrenched, in Eskom and throughout most government entities. Anyone foolish enough to try to quickly eradicate them would be taking their life in their hands.
That’s not to say ethics don’t matter. They do, at Eskom as elsewhere. At least ethical leaders would not further nourish patronage networks and may, for example, slowly start to turn the tide.
Willem Cronje Cape Town
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LETTER: Ethics at Eskom a matter of life and death
Job ad says new CEO must be ‘a leader with unquestionable integrity and ethics’
The Eskom CEO job ad hits the right buttons. “A leader with unquestionable integrity and ethics.” Except anyone applying for the job would know if they strenuously applied ethical procedures in Eskom they could be dead within a month.
Corrupt networks are deeply entrenched, in Eskom and throughout most government entities. Anyone foolish enough to try to quickly eradicate them would be taking their life in their hands.
That’s not to say ethics don’t matter. They do, at Eskom as elsewhere. At least ethical leaders would not further nourish patronage networks and may, for example, slowly start to turn the tide.
Willem Cronje
Cape Town
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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