The day Eskom felt the heat from backbencher Pravin Gordhan
'I don’t know if the board is living in a sort of oblivion but the public is connecting the dots'
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan led the roasting of the Eskom board and Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown yesterday over the reappointment of Brian Molefe. In his maiden appearance in the public enterprises committee as an ANC backbencher MP, since his axing in March, Gordhan lashed out at the Eskom board, saying its explanations regarding the controversial decision to reappoint Molefe as CEO simply lacked credibility. The meeting was called to discuss the decision to rehire Molefe earlier this month even though he had resigned from the position to take up a job as an ANC MP. In a tense four-hour meeting, Brown and the Eskom board, led by chairman Ben Ngubane, struggled to justify Molefe’s return in the face of sharp questions from ministers. Gordhan said the board had failed the country: “The questions are aplenty, the answers are all over the show, they lack credibility.” Gordhan said the Eskom board was living “in oblivion” given the kind of answers they were expecti...
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