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The Citizen reports that there was widespread applause from trade union federations, civil society and opposition parties after “complicit” former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown resigned as an MP on Thursday.
“Hooray and good riddance,” said SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, who went on to say: “She isn’t aware of the damage done to the economy and the number of workers who are at home as a result of all the shenanigans at Eskom. “From electricity shutdowns to extreme tariff increases … to the negative publicity that has resulted in the ratings agencies downgrades. She doesn’t understand that she was complicit. She should have been fired a long time ago, but that didn’t happen because the head of the project to collapse the country was [former] president Jacob Zuma.” Anti-corruption lobby group the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) said Brown took Eskom to the verge of ruin.
- Read this report by Yadhana Jadoo in full at The Citizen
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