By: Natasha Archary
When he’s not praising Eskom executives during the worst era of rolling blackouts the country has ever experienced, Pravin Gordhan contradicts himself.
This after he shared that ex-Eskom CEOs were going to be brought in to help with the country’s dire power crisis.
With loadshedding only getting worse, the Public Enterprises Minister is not against roping in former Eskom heavyweights to help with the skills shortage at the failing power utility.
Sizwe Dhlomo and the Kaya Drive team butted heads as to whether or not this was a good idea.
The Drive host’s point that under former Eskom CEO’s Brian Molefe, Collin Matjila and Matshela Koko, loadshedding did not exist, was not welcomed.
Current Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has the worst spell of loadshedding than all previous CEOs combined.
Mpho and Mbali felt there was a reason these guys were dismissed from the state-owned entity and roping them in to try to fix the multiple issues Eskom now faces is a futile attempt.
Based on data from the Council for Scientific Research (CSR), Siz is correct, the country was under no threat of loadshedding with Molefe, Matjila and Koko at the helm.
However, corruption and State Capture was, according to the Zondo Commission and the reports that were released detailing this.

With Stage 6 loadshedding costing the country an estimated R4.1 billion a day, does SA have anything to lose by getting former Eskom CEOs involved in the current power crisis?
Some listeners who are just desperate for the power crisis to end said they will gladly take all hands on deck, corrupt or not, we can use all the help right now.
Others shared Mpho and Mbali’s views that no good can come from further corruption.
Despite unions accepting the 7% across-the-board increase at Eskom, loadshedding is still in effect with various stages throughout the day.
This has been on-going, every day for the past month and Gordhan says it could persist for two weeks still.
According to Gordhan loadshedding will only gradually be reduced and cannot simply end with employees returning to work with a snap of a finger.
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