THE Black Business Council has called for the resignation of Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter and other senior executives after another round of stage 4 load shedding hit the country this week.
In a statement published on Monday evening, the group said that while it was initially hopeful for de Ruyter’s tenure, it is now calling for him and the entire Eskom board to step down due to their inability to stop the prolonged energy blackouts.
“The BBC was overly optimistic when de Ruyter was appointed as Eskom needed stability but has since realised that two years later, the country has nothing to show but the highest number of blackouts in the history of our beloved South Africa,” said Kganki Matabane, chief executive of the council.
He added that the entire Eskom leadership is wholly overwhelmed, inept and out of its depth.
“The country has been experiencing the blackouts
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