THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is calling for the resignation of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter after two weeks of rolling blackouts due to ongoing generation capacity shortages.
Trade unions, NUMSA and the National Union of Mineworkers, have also joined calls for the resignation of the power utility’s CEO and the board of Eskom.
The unions, which organises at Eskom, are joining the EFF and the Black Business Council in calling for heads to roll at the parastatal.
In a statement on Wednesday, the EFF urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to dissolve Eskom’s board, accusing it of failing to provide strategic guidance to lead the parastatal’s management.
The EFF’s leader Julius Malema has been at loggerheads with Gordhan for several years now and has branded him as an “unethical and incompetent” minister.
Malema’s party claimed that Gordhan was colluding with big business, as part of a
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