DA wants you to sign petition
The DA is driving a campaign to get signatures to force Eskom to pay back the estimated R63 million Eskom officials received as incentives from 2008 to 2014.
POLOKWANE – The DA is driving a campaign to get signatures to force Eskom to pay back the estimated R63 million Eskom officials received as incentives from 2008 to 2014.
Members of the DA Limpopo could be seen gathering signatures for the campaign over the last couple of weeks at various points in the city.
DA councillor, Androë Botha, said the Power to the People campaign would draw to a close at the end of this month, as the petition had to be submitted to parliament by April 6.
“People still wishing to add their signatures can sign the petition at the DA’s offices at 19 Hans van Rensburg Street,” Botha said.
Last year in parliament, the DA asked public enterprises minister, Lynne Brown, to explain the R10,8 million in “incentives” received last year by top Eskom officials while they were presiding over the “collapse of the company.”
Brown, in a written reply, explained the incentives paid to Eskom executives during 2014.
The DA previously called for the Eskom executives to repay the estimated R63 million they had been paid in bonuses since load shedding began.
They also called on the minister to freeze all executive’s bonuses until the company was stable.
The DA, according to Botha, estimate the cost of the Eskom crisis of load shedding since 2008 at a whopping R300 billion.
Further costs associated with the crisis were :
• R171,6 billion – the estimated budget overrun for Medupi and Kusile. The initial budget was R149,7 billion, currently it is R326,4 billion.
• Medupi and Kusile are five years behind schedule.
• R22,8 million – salary and bonus of former Eskom CEO Brian Dames in 2013.
