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Gordhan accepts Solidarity’s offer to help bring back engineers to fix Eskom.

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Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has written to Solidarity asking the labour union to provide a list of engineers and other workers that can assist with Eskom’s skills shortage.

Gordhan’s plea comes after Solidarity chief executive Dirk Hermann sent a letter to the minister on 25 May 2022 in which he reiterated the union’s past offers to help provide expertise to the utility to fix a lack of skills at its power stations.
21 Jul 2022 7AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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