Akani Nkuna
THE EFF has welcomed the move by President Cyril Ramaphosa to realign state owned enterprises which previously fell under the Department of Public Enterprises to appropriate government department.
EFF spokesperson Leigh-Ann Mathys said on Tuesday the move to relocate these state-owned-enterprises to respective departments should be loaded.
However, Mathys said it was concerning that the entities were centralized in the Presidency and this could direct the realignment towards a much more sinister purpose such as privatization.
“When we called for the closure of the DPE and the relocation of these SOEs to line departments, we were not advocating for privatization. We were calling for the alignment of SOEs so that they are able to fulfill their function as extensions of departments and remain fully state-owned,” she said.
She added that the former governing party was responsible for the total collapse of the entities since it came to in
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