WILLIE THABE: Gender could be at play in Scopa chair’s infantilisation of Eskom’s Mavuso

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Reaction to objection against placing the albatross on the board points to blind spots in power dynamics

The infantilisation of Eskom board member Busi Mavuso’s objection to the placement of the R300bn albatross on the current board of directors by the chairman of the sadds to the dust storm of questions about the state’s capability to act as a custodian of national assets. An exercise of what the board member believed to be her fiduciary responsibility was met with a strong suggestion that she was either out of her depth or trivialising a serious discussion.

However, Goldsmith’s wise advice consisting of tracing effects to their causes leads us to US law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s apt concept of intersectionality — how race, class, gender and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap.

In a country that aspires to be guided by egalitarian values but has not gone far enough in considering everything and anything that can marginalise people — gender, race, class, sexual orientation and physical ability — there are subconscious responses that are inadvertently triggered. They reflect the fact that the chair does not revere Mavuso as a professional but regards her as a melodramatic woman in a serious meeting.

What is more alarming for we ethics practitioners is that such aggressive responses continue unabated in an era in which diversity, equity and inclusivity have taken central stage as key strategic issues to create competitive advantage and social justice. They are the core of what will define business success in future.

 

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