Molefe announced his resignation on Friday after five years of being a board member and previously serving as Transnet's chairperson.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ANC’s NEC meeting on Saturday, the secretary-general said Gordhan would deliver a report on the country’s state-owned enterprises.
Molefe, whose departure from Transnet was announced on Friday, followed the resignations of Transnet CEO Portia Derby and Freight Rail CEO Siza Mzimela, raising questions over the departures of several leaders at the entity.
Eskom has been without a permanent CEO for seven months amid continued struggles to provide a stable power supply to the country, which the governing party previously blamed for its election woes.
Department minister Pravin Gordhan said the decision by previous administrations to let many of Transnet’s highly skilled workforce take voluntary severance packages was one of the issues that led to the dire state it found itself in.
Mkhwebane was removed from the Office of the Public Protector after 318 MPs, which included Pravin Gordhan, voted in favour of her impeachment, something the Public Enterprises Minister said he felt vindicated by.
The ANC Youth League in August alone publicly criticised Minister of Employment Thulas Nxesi for the high unemployment rate and Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan for authorising the sale of some SOEs.
Speaking at the ANC Veteran's League's elective conference on Friday, the secretary-general said while he had no malicious intent, suggestions that he is overstepping his authority by calling ministers to account are unfounded.
In the meantime, though, Gordhan expressed his faith in the newly announced board saying one of its tasks is “instilling an element of urgency”.
In the distance you have created between yourselves as government and the people who placed you there, you can no longer relate with them, even at the most basic level of humanity, writes Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster.
Members of the trade union gathered at the offices of the Public Enterprises department in Pretoria on Friday, to call for an urgent solution to the energy crisis.
The trade union federation will be raising concerns over the department's plans to appeal the North Gauteng high court's ruling to exempt essential services from load shedding.
However, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said Eskom has a target to improve the country’s energy availability factor to 70% by March 2024.
The trade union has written to Scopa to stop the approval of the deal, saying the proposal for the merger was illegitimate.
The Public Enterprises Minister said any good work that the former Eskom CEO, André De Ruyter, did during his three-year stint at the power utility would be overshadowed by how he ended his tenure.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the corruption exposed by De Ruyter is already well-known.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan appeared before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts, to answer questions following former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter’s corruption allegations at the power utility.
This comes after Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan who was appealing a High Court ruling compelling hospitals, schools, and police stations to be exempt from load shedding.
