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I’M HERE TO SERVE

‘I’M INSPIRED TO BE A LEADER WITH INTEGRITY AND A DEEP SENSE OF DUTY’

LOAD-SHEDDING affects him like it does everyone else. He gets stuck in traffic and experiences poor network quality and he became so tired of the lights going out at home he installed an inverter.

But it was worth the money, Mpho Makwana says. Not only does it mean a semblance of normality for his family when darkness descends, but it’s helping Eskom too.

He believes everyone in South Africa should do what they can to help take the load off the ailing power utility, while he and his colleagues work on making the state-owned enterprise great again.

The 52-year-old businessman is chairman of a new board at

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