The Eskom CEO’s resignation comes after an astonishing broadside from the minister of minerals & energy, including accusing De Ruyter of acting ‘like a policeman’. It’s called oversight, Gwede — look it up.
What Mantashe said, it won’t surprise you to learn, was utter demonstrable claptrap. But it probably played a pivotal role in pushing De Ruyter over the edge, leading to his resignation earlier this week. With no public support from either Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan, or from President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is battling to keep a lid on his own skeletons, De Ruyter’s resignation felt somewhat inevitable. do, however, is reverse the waves of load-shedding convulsing the country.
In an admission of what really matters to the ANC, its leaders moaned at the weekend’s national executive committee meeting about the impact that the constant load-shedding — which ratcheted up to stage 6 last week — will have on its electoral prospectsParty first, country second, as always. De Ruyter, who was handed the poisoned chalice three years ago, has now been sacrificed on the altar of the ANC’s wilful historical amnesia about the real cause of the rolling blackouts.
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