EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu. Picture: Sabrina Dean/OFM
An opinion piece on what the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) proposes as a five-point plan to save struggling energy utility Eskom by the party’s deputy president Floyd Shivambu has earned the backing of former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko.
According to Shivambu, the EFF’s plan is as follows:
The full column can be on IOL.
Koko took to Twitter following the column to express his approval. “I agree that the proposed recovery plan by the [EFF] to [save Eskom] is rational and sensible,” he tweeted.
“It actually makes a good read,” he added.
Koko has made it clear that he does not support what is currently going on at his former employer, particularly President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan’s efforts to save Eskom.
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At a media briefing in December, 2018, Gordhan requested managers who were no longer employed at the energy utility to refrain from commenting on developments at the energy provider, in what was almost certainly a reference to Koko, who has been outspoken in his criticism of Eskom and government’s plans to save it on social media since leaving the state-owned-enterprise.
Koko has even expressed the view – laced with more than a whiff of conspiracy – that load shedding is a “diversion” from what he sees as Eskom’s “real problem” – IPPs (independent power providers), a theory that puts him squarely in the same camp as the EFF on this issue.
(Compiled by Daniel Friedman.)
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