LEADERSHIP, Leadership, Leadership!!! This is what was lacking.....by the government, Eskom, Mr Maroga and Mr Godsell. As the central figure embroiled in the debacle, i would have expected Mr Maroga, to step up to the 'challenge' be the bigger and better man and acceptthe decision made. He would have done himself a world of good, and obtained the moral high ground, should later investigation revealed that indeed, he was the victim of ...whatever...! Instead, Mr Godsell outclassed him, when he announced his resignation, clearly stating reasons. Call me racist or anything you want, but this is precisely why, in a great many cases, both politically and in the business world, we as Africans, are being 'outshined' !! Why do we insist on clinging to positions when public sentiment is clearly against us? Is it the pay packages, ego...whatever it is ...it is definitely not worth it. He is not without fault though. My expectation - when the initial announcement was made - was for Mr Godsell to clearly explain, what happened and why it happened, leaving no doubt in the nations' mind....and leaving no room for political manipulation. As a nation we have struggled and achieved much; we are held in high esteem throughout the world for many things.....debacles such as these only detract from the good in the country.....and the nation suffers. Let us (the leadership of this country) be man enough and do the right thing.......always! What is next? Only time will tell!

It seems to be OK to be a racist..................as long as your skin is black!

To observer....I applaud you for summating the current state of affairs in RSA so well. Where is the leadership....come on Gwede, JZ ect what are you guys doing?? Are the ANCYL running this country or what? Your people await answers and action...now, not tomorrow but now!

Who cares if the coal shortage report was written by a pink person and leaked by a red person, was the report correct and what the hell did Maroga do about it.

What a mess this is! It is so sad to see how frequently, incessantly race is brought into every disagreement.It appears this debacle was triggered by sheer lack of performance, so surely that is the only criterion here .. although I must admit that giving the chap a huge salary increase so recently has muddied the water. Whatever is happening, it is tarnishing South Africa's name globally. That is a real tragedy.

Is'nt it funny?! Over the weekend all the comment columns were filled to the brim with black knee-jerk reactions over racist Godsell's actions in sacking Maroga (while the truth is that the board sacked him). Now that another black board member blocks Maroga, there are virtually no negative black reactions!

This is one of the saddest days for our democracy! We can see that the ANC is run along racist cadre lines, irrespective of whether the cadres cost our country so far in excess of R300 billion (not million) due to poor management. Now clearly we see that ANC policy dictates that 'Black is right and white is wrong'!

Unfortunately we will have to go through the complete demise of this country as have the rest of Africa. Africans not learning their lessons.

I like the first comment from Jakes. What is indeed ANCYL and BMF going to say now. Will there ever be any comment about the lock out. Is the acting Chairman maybe not white inside? He could then be a racist you know.

I think SA should start avoiding everything being labeled as being black or white. I also think that we should stop supporting people because they are black or they are white. I don't know much about Maroga as a CEO, whether he is the right person or not. But I believe if he resigned and the board supported that then we should all support them. Why on earth will the ANC Youth League not support that? Is it because of his colour? Is it becaue the ANC don't want to get their hands dirty? Let us all build this country not on selfish ideas but really looking at the whole country.