SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY
Political Bureau statement, 13 May 2017
SACP calls for decisive action to reverse irregular re-appointment of former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and bring an end to a reckless, parasitic network within government...
The SACP Political Bureau met on Friday, 12 May in Johannesburg in an ordinary session. The Politburo noted with deep concern the growing evidence of a reckless, parasitic network within government and within the ANC that operates outside of any collective discipline of either cabinet, or of the ANC’s National Executive Committee and other constitutional structures. What is more, this network appears to enjoy the support, tacit or otherwise, of President Jacob Zuma himself.
Hardly a week goes by without further evidence of structures gone rogue. In the past week Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas fired members of the provincial government's executive council in a blatant (and futile) effort to influence the outcome of the ANC’s Northern Cape conference.
In the same week, having correctly stepped in to stop Eskom’s outrageous plan to gift former CEO Brian Molefe a R30-million pay-out package, Lynne Brown, the Minister of Public Enterprises inexplicably did a U-turn and announced that it made “fiscal sense” to irregularly re-appoint Molefe as Eskom CEO.