“Job-shedding” - Steenhuisen explains how ANC’s lack of urgency on Eskom is damaging SA

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Last week DA leader John Steenhuisen’s proposed oversight trip to the disastrous Kusile power station was blocked by security guards on the instruction of ANC cabinet member Pravin Gordhan. Kusile was approved in 2007 as an eight-year project slated to cost R80bn. Now, 15 years later, it has cost over R200bn and only two of its six generation units are actually working. In this fascinating interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, the SA’s Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition shares the back story of the oversight visit that never was, offers some suggestions to his political opponents (hint: Thailand) – and explains what a DA government would be doing about Eskom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Nov 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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