Rational Perspective

Leading the charge to clean up Eskom is chairman Jabu Mabuza, a straight-talking entrepreneur who started his career as a taxi driver and a man fully aware of what's at stake. Having recently turned 60, Mabuza's own focus has switched from accumulating to serving – apart from chairing Eskom, he also holds the same position at Business Leadership South Africa. Mabuza’s appointment was an important part of the new broom wielded by Pravin Gordhan, South Africa’s corruption-fighting minister of public enterprises who returned to the national cabinet when new president Cyril Ramaphosa took office in January. Gordhan was twice dumped as finance minister by former president Jacob Zuma, most famously in a midnight reshuffle last March when the last remaining bulwarks against rampant corruption were removed by then president Jacob Zuma. Instead of leaving politics, Gordhan spent the next ten months as a back bencher – keeping up pressure on the plunderers with a starring role in numerous Parliamentary inquisitions