Busisiwe Mavuso

Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso says she stands by her views and decision to walk out of Friday's Scopa meeting.

“Eskom is not performing and delivering on its core mandate which is to supply electricity to the grid. What prepared speech because I answered a question that he put very strongly to the board,” she said. If he didn’t want to hear my answer, then his framing of the meeting was incorrect. There is no way I can answer to Medupi and Kusile without referring to the history.” I’m happy to actually be accused of exercising politics of the gutter,” she added. [It’s] not because we don’t want to, but because they predate this board and that is a fact.

Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso has remained unrepentant, saying she stands by her remarks after the much-publicised meeting between the power utility's ...

So we cannot expect today’s problems to be put on Andre De Ruyter or even at the board.” “So there is no way I can answer to Medupi and Kusile without referring to the history. “So the problems that we have today at Eskom is at first the incapability of the ANC to take hard decisions following the white paper in 1998.

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“The facts are quite simple: Scopa is there to hear all sides of the story, whether the chair (or any other member of the committee) likes the answers or not. “As I am sure you are now aware, a most unfortunate and quite frankly, unacceptable meeting took place with the board of Eskom on Friday April 22. Mazzone said Hlengwa should be suspended as Scopa chairperson until the powers & privileges committee has finalised its hearing against him.

The battle between Eskom board member and head of Business Leadership SA, Busisiwe Mavuso, and the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) continued ...

She raised the right issue in the wrong meeting with the wrong people. When we sit there, we sit as independent professionals to give an independent view on the overall running of the utility,” Mavuso said. And because you do not like the answer to the question, do not give me an ultimatum,” Mavuso said. I do not sit on that Eskom board as an ANC deployee, as he puts it apparently. “As André has said we will avail ourselves, we should be held accountable, chairperson, to ensure Kusile is finished by 2023. In the same Radio 702 interview, Hlengwa said he was not going to engage in a public spat with Mavuso as he had a responsibility to Parliament to ensure that accountability was upheld.

Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso was told to behave and leave a meeting after she blamed the ANC-led government for the problems at the state owned ...

Her response came after the committee’s criticisms during its visits to Medupi and Kusile stations that are problematic. JOHANNESBURG - Eskom board member and leader of Business Leadership SA (BLSA) Busisiwe Mavuso believes that the government is responsible for the issues that the power utility faces. She stood by her comments and said that we will not be treated like a misbehaved “schoolgirl.” Mavuso added that if the enterprise wants employees who are easily influenced, they should hire them.

Last Friday, a Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) meeting became headline news when Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso excused herself after she ...

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We should hang our heads in shame... A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily. Instead, Mavuso has been painted as disrespectful, engaging in “theatrics” and playing “politics of the gutter”. What an outrage and injustice!

The DA wants parliament to suspend Mkhuleko Hlengwa, chair of the standing committee on public accounts, after his heated exchange with Eskom board member ...

“The facts are quite simple: Scopa is there to hear all sides of the story, whether the chair (or any other member of the committee) likes the answers or not. “As I am sure you are now aware, a most unfortunate and quite frankly, unacceptable meeting took place with the board of Eskom on Friday April 22. Mazzone said Hlengwa should be suspended as Scopa chairperson until the powers & privileges committee has finalised its hearing against him.

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She raised the right issue in the wrong meeting with the wrong people. I don’t even talk to my 10-year-old son in that manner,” she said. I accept that the situation could have been handled better.

Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa has apologised to Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso after the two had a fiery exchange during a committee meeting last ...

I accept that the situation could have been handled better,” said Hlengwa. After the IFP meeting Hlengwa apologised to Mavuso and said the matter could have been handled better. “I have done this.

Mavuso said she would not allow Eskom CEO and his team be blamed for the debts incurred by the power utility under the ANC's leadership.

“We made 23 recommendations to the Eskom board and executives. “She raised the right issue in the wrong meeting with the wrong people. An argument broke out when she spoke about the issues Eskom faces today is due to the failure of the ANC & chair of Scopa Mr Hlengwa not happy with the response calling it theatrics. I support Busisiwe Mavuso 100%, as she has warned about political interference at Eskom for a while. Eskom had only achieved nine of the recommendations, leaving 14 incomplete. “She [Mavuso] speaks about Kusile being completed in 2023. That is not in dispute,” he said. JUST IN:#EskomBoard member Busisiwe Mavuso has walked out of the Scopa meeting. While Hlengwa says he agrees that Eskom is an ANC mess, telling Mavuso to “behave herself or leave” when her responses don’t tally with Scopa’s grandstanding is patriarchal political bullying. His thin reasoning smacks of political grandstanding, which led to Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso walking out of his committee meeting after some MP bullying. We were not there on a political expedition. “What does behave mean?

Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Mkhuleko Hlengwa will tender an apology to Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso.

Oversight and accountability are often uncomfortable, especially when so much is wrong in the country, but they are a necessary exercise of our constitutional and democratic dispensation. Hlengwa came under fire this week following the clash with Mavuso during a Scopa meeting. I accept that the situation could have been handled better," he said in a statement.

Was Mavuso right? Did she use the wrong platform to address the issue, or is Eskom shifting the blame?

She raised the right issue in the wrong meeting with the wrong people. I don’t even talk to my 10-year-old son in that manner,” she said. She hit back saying it was a “fact” that “this is a mess of the ANC-led government”.