Cyril Ramaphosa meets Business Leadership SA to discuss issues facing Eskom

Mbasa Gqokoma
20 March 2015

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa today met with Business Leadership South Africa to discuss the issues facing Eskom.

Ramaphosa said he welcomed interest shown by businesses to fund a solution to the current energy crisis in the country.

Eskom has been under immense pressure following the suspension of four executives including its CEO and the financial trouble it is faced with.

In Parliament this week Deputy President Ramaphosa announced a panel that would advise him on issues concerning Eskom and a war room has also been set-up for this.

Ramaphosa said the war room is managed on an ongoing basis by number of our officials but Dr Shaun Philips has been in charge of monitoring and evaluation and is the one who manages the war room on a daily basis.

“So the effort to address the challenges that Eskom faces is comprehensive and it is going deeper and deeper we are grappling all the issues that surrounds the current problems” Ramaphosa added.