lack of transparency, agility, and operational excellence, and by widespread wastage due to a lack of accountability and consequence management. This makes it very difficult to steer the organisation into a long-term healthy plan. We are, however, encouraged by what the Eskom board chairperson said in his submission to the commission - the utility has already identified a number of areas amounting to billions of rand of unjustifiable costs on the Medupi and Kusile build programmes that they are making efforts to recover.