ANA reports that the Black Management Forum (BMF) on Tuesday slammed African National Congress (ANC) NEC member Senzo Mchunu for blaming black managers for all the trouble at state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly power utility Eskom.  

Mchunu was quoted in City Press as saying that the country would regret calling some black managers "people of excellence" because they were "fake".  "What has happened in most of the parastatals is that those people whom we trusted, who are indeed black managers, proved to be fake.  They became excellent in failure and looting," Mchunu was quoted as saying.  BMF president Andile Nomlala said they acknowledged that the utility had over the years been engulfed by a gross failure in corporate governance and ethical leadership.  However, he took a swipe at the ruling party for appointing unqualified executives to run SOEs and went on to say:  "It is actually astonishing that politicians are now putting blame on black managers, yet we have learnt from the State capture commission the fervent pressure politicians have been putting on professionals to do wrong things."  Nomlala also said the BMF would not defend black professionals who had aided state capture and wanted those professionals who had succumbed to the pressure of politicians to be charged and brought to book.

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