You've got an uncle in the SOE business, Pravin Gordhan. Our uncle in the load-shedding business sits on his couch and faces zero accountability, khayakoko88 writes. MORE HERE:
), Pravin “Joshua Doore” Gordhan smirked when our uncle in the load-shedding business realised, despite his many failings, he would still be entrusted with overseeing Eskom.Well, in November 2018, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ deputy president Floyd Shivambu, a senior leader of a party that has continued advocating for Gordhan’s removal and labelled him the “”, ridiculed Gordhan by likening him to the “uncle” in the logo of furniture retailer, Joshua Doore.
“So as to remove any confusion, the minister of public enterprises will remain the shareholder representative of Eskom, and steer the restructuring of Eskom, and ensure the establishment of the [new Eskom] transmission company; oversee the implementation of the just energy programme, and oversee the establishment of the SOE [state-owned enterprises] holding company,” the cupcake-in-chief declared.
Yes, much of Eskom’s woes have to do with the late investment in additional energy capacity to the country’s grid, and theGrowing up in the Gauteng township of Katlehong during the 1990s, we had a joke to insult each other as friends when one had done something foolish, using the might of Eskom to drive home the punchline. That is, “You’re so dumb, you went into a power fight with Eskom armed with nothing but a candle.
But, after a two-year respite from the rolling blackouts that have been a feature since 2007, Gordhan arrived at public enterprises and reversed those green shoots.
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