EDITORIAL: Axing Gordhan a short cut to ruin
His appointment as a personal clean-up emissary of the president has made him a target for the enablers of state capture
16 January 2020 - 05:00
When Pravin Gordhan was appointed minister of public enterprises in February 2018, Eskom was at the centre of a state that had been captured to benefit the pockets of a small group of people in business and the government.
Good financial management had long been absent from Megawatt Park. An ageing power infrastructure was crippled by insufficient maintenance, the power utility’s workforce was bloated, and two new coal-fired megaprojects had both busted the budget and missed their completion deadlines...
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