surprise to many. The ACDP has wished him well and noted that he must have been a very brave man to have accepted the position with a responsibility to turn the entity around, with its R454 billion debt burden.
However, three criticisms were levelled at his appointment and you have to some extent answered some of them. So, feel free to just answer the others. I only have one question. The three criticisms have been: He is white and therefore you as Minister are anti-transformational.
Second criticism is that he is not an engineer; hence he will not be able to understand and solve some of the intricate technical difficulties at Eskom. The third criticism was that he did not make much of a success at Nampak; hence South Africans should not expect him to turn Eskom around. Can the Minister respond to these criticisms? [Interjections.]