First Molefe, now Pamensky – expect more Eskom dynamite
It is often darkest before the dawn. And after Gupta deployed Mark Pamensky’s resignation from Eskom’s board yesterday, that might well prove the case.
It is often darkest before the dawn. And after Gupta deployed Mark Pamensky’s resignation from Eskom’s board yesterday, that might well prove the case.
Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s 355 page report on State Capture is like being handed the box with every piece in a complicated puzzle.
Does the career of Enver Daniels not testify to the damage which the ANC’s cronyism – also known as cadre deployment – has done to this country, asks Ed Herbst.
So why is Luthuli House/Parliament continually delaying the process to bring in yet another interim SABC board, something that could be concluded within a matter of days?
Ed Herbst says the financial survival of the SABC depends on getting rid of the current crop of ANC-linked scavengers on its catastrophically-incompetent board.
Ed Herbst is puzzled by Jackson Mthembu’s suggestion to reporters in parliament that Hlaudi Motsoeneng is not a deployed cadre.
Ed Herbst takes a satirical look at the anguish the ANC ‘Big Vegetables’ must be feeling as new Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga upsets the apple cart.
Anthea Jeffery thinks the temptation to use violence for political gain is likely to grow: especially so if the police continue to turn a blind eye to coercion from Umkhonto’s supposed veterans.
Johannes Wessels says it is time for business leaders and economists to read again Von Hayek’s clarion call for freedom of choice, freedom to differ, freedom to compete.
Whilst many South Africans are cheering the dawn of a more competitive political era and an election process that was remarkably free and fair, the country’s democratic state remains fragile.