- Gordhan calls for the sack of sabotaging employees
- Calls on law enforcement agencies to assist in weeding out sabotaging staff of the utility
The Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, has called on the management of state-owned utility, Eskom to sack employees who are sabotaging the efforts of the embattled utility. Gordhan made the call while speaking to members of the National Assembly.
“The Eskom management must not hesitate to fire people. Employees within Eskom… [must] do their job and do their job honestly and not undermine – through their own initiative or at the behest of other people outside Eskom – the institution itself and therefore the country.” Gordhan stated.
“We must say clearly to them: please go and find a job somewhere else. Eskom doesn’t need you, and we don’t need the undermining [behaviour]. The country must become intolerant, as must Parliament, of anybody who wants to undermine a national asset like Eskom,” Gordhan added.
Gordhan called on the law enforcement agencies to ensure that such acts of sabotage are dealt with according to the provisions of the law. “The law enforcement agencies need to come to the party and increase the risk of detection of malfeasance within Eskom so that there’s a reorientation of behaviour according to the right values,” he said.
“For Eskom to work properly, it is not just Eskom that has the responsibility, it is the entire ecosystem that supports Eskom at a policy level, at an administrative level and at a regulatory level,” Gordhan said.