{"id":208847,"date":"2021-11-18T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/fire-eskom-mischief-makers-gordhan\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:12:00","slug":"fire-eskom-mischief-makers-gordhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fire-eskom-mischief-makers-gordhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Eskom ‘mischief makers’ \u2013 Gordhan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says Eskom management must take strong disciplinary action against employees at the power utility who \u201cundermine\u201d its work.<\/p>\n

He was speaking during a question and answer session in the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Eskom management must not hesitate to fire people. Employees within Eskom\u2026[must] do their job and do their job honestly and not undermine \u2013 through their own initiative or at the behest of other people outside Eskom \u2013 the institution itself and therefore the country.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]hose that are dishonest, we must say clearly to them: please go and find a job somewhere else. Eskom doesn\u2019t need you and we don\u2019t need the undermining [behaviour]. The country must become intolerant, as must Parliament, of anybody who wants to undermine a national asset like Eskom,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n

Minister Gordhan was addressing the National Assembly just hours after Eskom announced the implementation of Stage 2 load shedding as a result of breakdowns at three power stations.<\/p>\n

The power utility has been battling to keep the lights on for the past month with several breakdowns, trips, boiler leakages and other issues hampering its ability to generate enough electricity to sustain the country.<\/p>\n

Gordhan told the National Assembly that \u201cmalfeasance\u201d and \u201cmischief\u201d both internally and externally could also be the cause of the regularity of the problems besetting the power utility.<\/p>\n

\u201c[There are] internal collaborators\u2026and the law enforcement agencies need to come to the party and increase the risk of detection of malfeasance within Eskom so that there\u2019s reorientation of behaviour according to the right values.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e\u2019ll have to\u2026invite the trade union leadership that is representing the majority of people working at Eskom, to work with us in this particular regard so that they must be equally committed to ensuring that any form of mischief [is] removed from Eskom itself,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n

Gordhan explained that Eskom is working on various measures to stabilise the entity including the improvement of power stations, specialised skills being brought in, the driving down of partial energy load losses and ensuring that Eskom has the right quality of coal.<\/p>\n

He added, however, that the process to return the power utility back to being a \u201cwell-functioning national entity\u201d will need collaboration from all sectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 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.\u201d \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says Eskom management must take strong disciplinary action against employees at the power utility who \u201cundermine\u201d its work. He was speaking during a question and answer session in the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon. \u201cThe Eskom management must not hesitate to fire people. Employees within Eskom\u2026[must] do their job and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-208847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fire-eskom-mischief-makers-gordhan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}