De Ruyter strikes back – blows the lid on ANC corruption, political interference and worse load shedding this winter

Mista_Mobsta said:
Everyone is worried about an ex-CEO that speaks up but what everyone is missing is how captured the Eskom board has to be to allow all this nonsense to go on without any accountability.

Also - I am sure De Ruyter would have had numerous sessions with the board regarding the state of affairs.

Given how easy it is in SA to quickly hire someone to take a life, he has made an extremely dangerous and calculated move which, at least to me, points to the fact that we should heed his words as truth...this isn't about his career anymore, it's about his life!
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Agreed.

I was somewhat taken that board with all the fanfair. Some of the CVs actually looked half decent, but the reality is they're yet another bunch of rotten quislings and incompetents. Any firm with an ounce of integrity will need to avoid them at all costs.
 
Jefferson D'Arcy said:
Agreed.

I was somewhat taken that board with all the fanfair. Some of the CVs actually looked half decent, but the reality is they're yet another bunch of rotten quislings and incompetents. Any firm with an ounce of integrity will need to avoid them at all costs.
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Corporates don't do the emotional thing.
 
TheChamp said:
Of course he is.
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For what? He has nothing to lose or harm? That's why he can basically say what he has, because there is, quite literally, short of charging him criminaly ( which would lead to major court exposure ), nothing they can do or say to harm him. Pretty sure he's going to go back to Canada and I have a few colleagues there, also ex-Eskom m, who'd welcome his attempt with open arms, if he needs to.
 
TheChamp said:
The board is fairly new, so I don't know what you are basing your capture claims on, most of the things De Ruyter is talking about are not things that happened yesterday, but even if they did happen yesterday, if De Ruyter is powerless when a top cop releases a criminal that was caught red handed how is the board different?
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"The time has come, Gordhan said, for everyone at Eskom — management included — to demonstrate that they can better operate the utility. Doing so would make a huge difference to the economy, he said.

The resistance to better performance at Eskom, the minister added, “undermines the economy and the confidence of the population in Eskom itself”.

“I think it is fair to ask whether, as during this capture period, we now have Eskom being used as a political football again. And the appeal that we will make to all parties concerned is: ‘Hands off Eskom’,” Gordhan said.

“Let the management and the board do the work. Do not interfere in that arena. And if there is any political debate, discourse and exchanges that need to take place, let that happen within the political domain and not within the energy domain itself.”

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I guess my wording should be different - the board seems to be a political ploy that has been put in place to make it seem as if the political meddling has ended. Given what Gordhan has stated regarding the political football, I don't doubt that there's a lot of fact behind De Ruyters interview - the question remains, how long will it be before the skeletons tumble and the canary sings?
 
Kosmik said:
For what? He has nothing to lose or harm? That's why he can basically say what he has, because there is, quite literally, short of charging him criminaly ( which would lead to major court exposure ), nothing they can do or say to harm him. Pretty sure he's going to go back to Canada and I have a few colleagues there, also ex-Eskom m, who'd welcome his attempt with open arms, if he needs to.
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I would not be surprised if he has already lined up a lucrative C-suite role somewhere in Canada.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I would not be surprised if he has already lined up a lucrative C-suite role somewhere in Canada.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he was at the point of not even needing to. He wasn't looking for the massive salary when joining Eskom so I think it was his attempt, naively and misguided, to actually try be a bit philanthropic and give back.
 
TBH, I'm worried.

No CEO, No COO and supposedly still no Elec minister who is supposed to be overseeing all this.

Its not a sh**show, FUBAR or even cluster****, it can only be described as the politically made disaster that is Eskom right now.
 
Kosmik said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he was at the point of not even needing to. He wasn't looking for the massive salary when joining Eskom so I think it was his attempt, naively and misguided, to actually try be a bit philanthropic and give back.
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He did mention he wants to continue on with green energy somewhere in the interview
 
Kosmik said:
TBH, I'm worried.

No CEO, No COO and supposedly still no Elec minister who is supposed to be overseeing all this.

Its not a sh**show, FUBAR or even cluster****, it can only be described as the politically made disaster that is Eskom right now.
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Oberholzer is still there.
 
TheChamp said:
Oberholzer is still there.
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Until when? end of April? Has a replacement for him being announced at all?

Its all a monumental shyte show and all orchestrated by our amazingly incompetent ANC.

I mean ffs, he announced his retirement months ago, they should have his replacement announced and ready to slot into place already.
Andre didn't give them an immense amount of time, so I'll give them a bit of a pass on it, but I don't expect a new CEO to be found anytime within the next 18 months whilst Cyril sits around with his finger up his rectum whilst pontificating about Party Unity, useless fscking ****** that he is.
 
ToxicBunny said:
The fact that his interview gets such prompt responses from so many spheres of government, is a clear indication that the stuff Andre talked of is very likely true.
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10000% agreed.

I also like the "Mantashe called it outright as high treason" - this guy has stolen more money that most people will see in their entire life... hell... most families!
 
Kosmik said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he was at the point of not even needing to. He wasn't looking for the massive salary when joining Eskom so I think it was his attempt, naively and misguided, to actually try be a bit philanthropic and give back.
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Are we forgetting that people who tend to be CEOs of large companies are the people who don't have the mentality of "oh I made my money, I'm going to stop now". They tend to work at that high level because they want to.
 
TheChamp said:
At least Gwede looked him in the eye, called him by name and openly accused him of things, our guy is not brave enough to do the same with the high ranking MP who is busy looting Eskom or the top cop who is busy releasing the Eskom saboteurs.
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Easy to be brave when you have the full weight of the mafia behind you...
 
Harmonic said:
Once he leaves the COO job is apparently going to be scrapped and never filled again

Edit: See here
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So it being a "new" role makes this a little easier to understand, but given the scale of the entity not having a COO role seems fscking retarded to me.
 
TheChamp said:
Fair enough, it's also just to easy to tell stories about unnamed top cops who are releasing criminals and unnamed MPs who are looting Eskom, you catch the sympathy without the consequences.
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Would love to know what you would do in the same position... when you have had your life and those of your family threatened... just how brave you'd be...

I can tell you now, I would NEVER be this brave with my families lives... but that's just me
 
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