“If you recall many people say I said things about De Ruyter, but actually my description of De Ruyter was that this is a good manager [however] you are deploying him to an institution that requires a fixer.“So that means there’s a mismatch of skills to the challenges facing this institution and that is not an issue about De Ruyter, it is an issue of a philosophy of appointing any leadership to any institution,” he said.
“I accused Eskom [as a whole]. You know when that institution subjects [the country] to load shedding, it is pitting society against a sitting government. “I think this is a wrong example because when you criticised Brian Molefe for anything, it can be for state capture, but if we assess his performance when he was CEO during that period there was no load shedding.