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Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan has laid the blame for Stage 6 load shedding squarely with certain Eskom workers who have gone on an unprotected strike.

Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan has laid

. The minister has shown images of workers’ houses that he says were petrol bombed by striking workers.Electricity supply to Eskom workers’ houses was also allegedly tampered with.A woman manager at Eskom also had her tyres slashed.Outrage over implementation of stage 6 rolling blackouts Meanwhile, the National Union of Mineworkers , and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa say there has been what they call ‘considerable progress’ in talks around wages with Eskom and that a new offer will be tabled at the Central Bargaining Forum on Friday.The NUM and Numsa say, in a statement, that they will embark on a consultation process with workers regarding the new offer.Gordhan says he hopes workers will return to their posts on Wednesday.

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Time for a Tax Revolt, then there will be nothing and fokkol for any Govt Depts to do anything, no money for salaries, roads, health care, grants.. FFS a bird in the hand is way better than a bird in the bush... People should be grateful they have a job.....

Is it the first time that the workers have gone on unprotected strike? Stop coming with flimsy excuses. You have failed.

He is a lair that 1,incompetency is wat he master

He must pay employees...uncle Joshua Doore

Pay them uncle Joshua Doore😉

That one must go back to India

This fool of a Minister must be fired, why ANC NEC is still keeping this fool as a minister or maybe technically he is the boss of ANC'

If they are the root cause fire them all and give power buying consumers some respite the next bunch of recruits will start at 23 rand a hour minimum wage across all sectors they earn to much that's why want more .

What is appalling about this ….thee qualified ingenieurs van have the whole problem fixed in a month,,,,,but they are not allowed to their skin is the wrong color…so the state will rather put us through this than to put competent people in

Not on Zuma. Guptas. Molefe. Koko.Disgusting Ms Brown why have the workers not been dealt with? Arrested? Charged? Fired?

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