JONATHAN JANSEN | You know it’s bad when ANC values Solidarity after years of cadre deployment
The president, Gordhan and their government look hapless and desperate during one of the worst bouts of load-shedding
28 September 2022 - 21:12
If you had told me five years ago that proud ANC minister Pravin Gordhan would write to right-wing Afrikaans movement Solidarity for assistance in finding high-level skills for Eskom, I would have warned you of the deleterious effects of cannabis on the senses. But such are the times. The ruling party, having mismanaged virtually all our national assets under state control and run the power utility company into the ground, now has the once Communist Party member on his knees scrambling to find the engineering and maintenance skills for this vital component of the national economy. ..
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