Mazzone Lashes Out At ‘Communist’ Gordhan After The Minister, Parliament Reject DA’s Cheaper Electricity Bill

NATASHA MAZZONE

DO YOU remember when you were unceremoniously fired as Finance Minister by Mr Jacob Zuma, I met you just outside Poorthuis in the Parliamentary precinct? We all had tears in our eyes. We all knew just how bad things had got.Do you remember when you joined the Public Enterprises Committee?

I still called you Minister. I had too much respect to call you anything other than that, perhaps because I have manners, but also because I was so proud that you had come to fight side by side with team South Africa to expose State Capture.

Do you remember what it felt like when those who had tried to steal Eskom bit by bit sat in front of us and we interrogated them until, in some cases, they were reduced to tears. You coined the phrase, we are here to join the dots.

The whole country was completely