Calls are increasing for Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to fire Eskom CEO André de Ruyter as the country battles with constant load shedding. Read more here:
, a number of ANC provincial leaders – including KwaZulu-Natal secretary Bheki Mtolo – raised concerns about how the Eskom crisis was being managed.
The National Union of Mineworkers and Economic Freedom Fighters previously called for De Ruyter as well as Eskom COO, Jan Oberholzer to be fired.The conversation around Du Ruyter’s future at Eskom comes after Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe suggested that the power utility was attempting to “Mantashe seemingly took a dig at De Ruyter comparing him to a “policeman” who is focused on “chasing criminals, ” without a grasp of Eskom’s challenges.
On Saturday, President Cyril Ramaphosa, meanwhile, pleaded for patience with the new board, which was appointed in September this year. “Let us give them a chance. Yes we have said that load shedding is going to be a problem for us going forward but government is committed to bringing load shedding to an end. Load shedding is not a deliberate act by the government [or] by Eskom management.
“It’s just what we are dealing with in terms of the power stations that keep breaking and this has been happening for quite some time and we are dealing with the problem,” he told reporters in Cape Town.
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