Dear Energy Committee Chairperson, how about some real accountability?
By Richard Halsey on behalf of ENERGY GOVERNANCE SOUTH AFRICA (EGSA), 27 November 2017
Over the years we have observed two unfortunate trends. The first is an increasing lack of accountability of government officials, and the second is key decisions in the energy sector being made against public and environmental interests.
Dear Honourable Fikile Majola,
We wrote to you directly on 2 October 2017 regarding what we view as a blatant failure of governance, when the previous Minister of Energy, Mmamoloko Kubayi, provided entirely inadequate responses to several parliamentary questions. When I say ‘we’, I am referring to Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA), a network of concerned individuals and organisations dedicated to promoting good governance in the energy sector. Project 90 by 2030 is an environmental non-profit organisation that co-ordinates the EGSA network. …
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