Truth to Power Quotes

“The snazzily dressed Vusi Mkhatshwa, MEC for finance, economic development and tourism in Mpumalanga, spoke after me and had clearly been caught off-guard by the matters I had raised. Feeling the need to respond, he said he knew the guys doing the coal deliveries and would ask them not to steal so much. Many a true word is spoken in jest …”
― André de Ruyter, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

“The ideology of resource politics overrides common sense.”
― André de Ruyter, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

“Committees are where good ideas go to die,”
― André de Ruyter, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

“Sadly, selfless leadership has been in short supply in South Africa over the last few decades, with a pervasive culture of rent-seeking and patronage poisoning our society.”
― André de Ruyter, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

“What the connection was between state security and coal mining, I didn’t know, except that both take place underground.”
― André de Ruyter, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom