BLSA says South Africa has skills in abundance to fix Eskom

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South Africa has the skills to fix Eskom

Business Leadership SA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso believes South Africa has more than enough skills to turn Eskom around.

Mavuso, who was speaking at the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Directors event in Johannesburg on Friday, said that the problems at Eskom are instead due to political interference.
 
Jan said:
South Africa has the skills to fix Eskom

Business Leadership SA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso believes South Africa has more than enough skills to turn Eskom around.

Mavuso, who was speaking at the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Directors event in Johannesburg on Friday, said that the problems at Eskom are instead due to political interference.
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She is probably not wrong, but until the ANC are out of power and the political interference to their level is done away with, those skills very likely won't touch eskom with a barge pole unless that paycheck is insanely large.
 
Damn, Mybroadband!

You are making this woman another Chris Yelland, Dawie Roodt, etc.

Next thing we will be having ten articles about her thoughts.

Sheesh, you and your other site, Business tech are shameless... oh, and not forgetting Daily investor.
 
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charlieharper said:
To be fair, I kinda wish MyBB would just stick to direct tech / telecoms news like it did in the past when it was still MyADSL.
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Agreed, mybb has become very political over the years. Wish it was still a good old tech site. It was nice to get away from politics for a bit and read about stuff that was actually interesting.
 
Not for long if the education system is not better looked after and would've been an even bigger disaster than Eskom without the assistence from independent stakeholders.
 
She sounds like she's talking with knowledge, let's wait and see....

“We have engineers galore, we have skills galore, and we have professionals galore,” said Mavuso.

“The problem is that you are put in that environment as an engineer, as the board, as the CEO, with both your arms tied behind your back, and you are expected to box in a boxing ring.”
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Just seeing a flight of pigs flying in formation, very beautiful.

I have said this before, Eskom is a metaphor for the South African government, business, corruption, labour and politics.

In 20 years no one has been able to bring order and discipline, every year two steps backwards.

It will take a military dictatorship to put this bunch of juvenile delinquents in order.

I don't know if business leadership south africa are miracle workers.

We don't live on continent of strong leadership.
 
Still unbelievable that she paid GFFR R50million to investigate eskom and they couldnt find anything of substance and she gets away with it
 
Two statements in this article baffle my mind & makes me feel there is a sense of delusion, "skills galore" & "plans galore".
If there truly is a feeling amongst these educated individuals that we have that amount of skilled people around to fix Eskom in SA, then they have not heard about the speed of attrition at which said people are leaving SA. Thats worrying in itself.

Secondly, the plans galore part also blows my mind because this means either Luthuli house is in a state of "analysis paralyses" and can't make an Informed decision or there is nothing tangible. I suspect the latter.
I'm pretty confident that an experienced engineer who could richly advise on eskom & give clear direction is not at that table - he/she is probably living in Sweden, enjoying a good life (once again, the attrition problem).

Anyway, had to rant about this one 'cause I had high hopes based on the very confident title, but alas . . .
 
No doubt the skills are here. But they are being held back by

1 - Cadre deployment
2 - Corruption
3 - Theft
4 - Inept management
5 - Continuing govt interference by people who do not know what they are doing
6 - BEE nonsense from suppliers
 
Sure we have the skill and the will to fix eskom, but on the other side of the balance, the comrades need to be fed :sneaky:
 
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