Eskom Is Undermining Gordhan – ANC Joburg Backs ‘Powerless’ Sowetans

THE ANC in Johannesburg has come out in support of Soweto residents who marched to Eskom’s head office at Megawatt Park over power cuts on Wednesday.

The ruling party’s Johannesburg region said it had engaged an “intransigent” Eskom last month, but the power utility had been unwilling to resolve Soweto residents’ issues.

It claimed that Eskom was undermining Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, whom they claim has instructed the power utility to attend to the matter.

“[The] Eskom leadership has demonstrated not having the interest of the people at heart but the interest to get more profits and use those [profits] to continue advancing corruption by giving their friends and relatives tenders,” the party said in a statement.

The party added that it had asked its members in the City of Johannesburg to work with Eskom to “facilitate City Power taking over the areas currently supplied by Eskom directly”.