BREAKING | Gordhan moves to replace Eskom board

[rvZA]

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday informed the directors of Eskom that changes will be made to the board in the next few days, News24 Business has learnt.

Eskom, which can have a maximum of 13 non-executive directors, has only six. Seven have resigned with the first resignation in 2018 and have not been replaced. The remaining directors, whose term began in 2018, have appealed to Gordhan for several years to fill the vacancies on the board. It is critically short of the skills it needs, particularly in engineering and the electricity supply industry.

With the crisis around Eskom deepening, the Cabinet resolved last week that the Eskom board should be strengthened. It is unclear whether the entire board will be replaced or some directors will be retained to allow for continuity.

Gordhan moves to 'restructure and reconstitute' Eskom board | Business

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday informed the directors of Eskom that changes will be made to the board in the next few days, News24 Business has learnt.

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[rvZA]

While there was a strong sentiment expressed in last week's Cabinet meeting that De Ruyter should be fired, there has been no indication yet of what Gordhan intends to do.

If they keep him in his position, nothing will happen at Eskom.

 

[Thugscub]

Replacing crooks and thieves with crooks and thieves.

 

[surface]

I have absolutely no idea how all this works. Uncle Pravin, I am the perfect candidate for this. Please hire me.

 

[Tman*]

I hope Gordhan starts with himself.

 

[ForceFate]

With the crisis around Eskom deepening, the Cabinet resolved last week that the Eskom board should be strengthened. It is unclear whether the entire board will be replaced or some directors will be retained to allow for continuity.

Headline: Gordhan moves to replace Eskom board...

 

["D"]

Replacing crooks and thieves with crooks and thieves.

Hopefully they will add one ninja this time ...

 

[ToxicBunny]

So wait, an entity that is clearly in crisis has been operating with a below half strength board for 4 years?

Huge amounts of urgency their Pravin you fscking retard...

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

If they keep him in his position, nothing will happen at Eskom.

nothing will happen regardless, the ANC meddling is the problem and that is definitely staying

 

[R13...]

They must advertise so we can all apply. I can't do worse than the current lot surely?

 

[ShaunSA]

Jamnadas strikes again

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Let me know when they are replacing the ANC

 

[Nerfherder]

So wait, an entity that is clearly in crisis has been operating with a below half strength board for 4 years?

Huge amounts of urgency their Pravin you fscking retard...

I think it was up to the existing members to fill the positions... perhaps its this stagnation he hopes to address ?

 

[ToxicBunny]

I think it was up to the existing members to fill the positions... perhaps its this stagnation he hopes to address ?

Nah, the board can't fill the board, and from the way I read the article the board has been pleading for Nob-Head Pravin to fill the board since 2018 and he's stuck his thumb up his arse as usual.

 

[Cius]

If they keep him in his position, nothing will happen at Eskom.

I have a family member who worked for Eskom and sat in meetings with him as well as many of his predecessors and was very impressed with him, and his professionalism, especially compared to his most recent predecessors. Lack of progress in finding a way forwards is now less about him and more about factions within Eskom that are actively skuppering his efforts to make him look bad I recon. Especially once he started suspending the bad apples they effectively have been working to discredit him. There are ample reports about lower level people in Eskom sabotaging, stealing, and ignoring warning gauges etc which he has been actively trying to stop. A lot of bad apples have settled in Eskom over the last decade and it will take a while to filter them out even by a good leader. I still trust him in the job for now but I strongly suspect that Eskom is so broken and has so much dead or corrupt wood in it that the solution will not come from Eskom. It will come from private providers and Eskom's assets will at some stage be sold off to those private companies who will fix up the individual plants individually as new management with a mandate to cut the excess and the corrupt. Eskom is just too far gone at this point, and firing the bad apples is just too hard in our labour environment. Government departments struggle to retrench and fire people on a good day. The private sector can still somewhat effectively manage that.

 

[ForceFate]

They must advertise so we can all apply. I can't do worse than the current lot surely?

Are you willing to toe the line no matter the circumstances? If not, don't bother. If you're willing, then you'll be just as bad.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Good, hope they were shocked when they found out

 

[ToxicBunny]

I have a family member who worked for Eskom and sat in meetings with him as well as many of his predecessors and was very impressed with him, and his professionalism, especially compared to his most recent predecessors. Lack of progress in finding a way forwards is now less about him and more about factions within Eskom that are actively skuppering his efforts to make him look bad I recon. Especially once he started suspending the bad apples they effectively have been working to discredit him. There are ample reports about lower level people in Eskom sabotaging, stealing, and ignoring warning gauges etc which he has been actively trying to stop. A lot of bad apples have settled in Eskom over the last decade and it will take a while to filter them out even by a good leader. I still trust him in the job for now but I strongly suspect that Eskom is so broken and has so much dead or corrupt wood in it that the solution will not come from Eskom. It will come from private providers and Eskom's assets will at some stage be sold off to those private companies who will fix up the individual plants individually as new management with a mandate to cut the excess and the corrupt. Eskom is just too far gone at this point, and firing the bad apples is just too hard in our labour environment. Government departments struggle to retrench and fire people on a good day. The private sector can still somewhat effectively manage that.

I think in many ways you may be right.

Eskom is too big to fail, but I think its also possibly too big to fix anymore, at least not without a concerted effort from the people at the top and they won't make that effort because it requires making hard choices.

 

[Nerfherder]

I have a family member who worked for Eskom and sat in meetings with him as well as many of his predecessors and was very impressed with him, and his professionalism, especially compared to his most recent predecessors. Lack of progress in finding a way forwards is now less about him and more about factions within Eskom that are actively skuppering his efforts to make him look bad I recon. Especially once he started suspending the bad apples they effectively have been working to discredit him. There are ample reports about lower level people in Eskom sabotaging, stealing, and ignoring warning gauges etc which he has been actively trying to stop. A lot of bad apples have settled in Eskom over the last decade and it will take a while to filter them out even by a good leader. I still trust him in the job for now but I strongly suspect that Eskom is so broken and has so much dead or corrupt wood in it that the solution will not come from Eskom. It will come from private providers and Eskom's assets will at some stage be sold off to those private companies who will fix up the individual plants individually as new management with a mandate to cut the excess and the corrupt. Eskom is just too far gone at this point, and firing the bad apples is just too hard in our labour environment. Government departments struggle to retrench and fire people on a good day. The private sector can still somewhat effectively manage that.

100%

Like you said - the only way to go is to start dicing up those assets and let the private sector run them. Clean out the rot.

Its not even that it needs to be privatized, its the clean slate that comes with selling it off.

 

[TelkomUseless]

I think in many ways you may be right.

Eskom is too big to fail, but I think its also possibly too big to fix anymore, at least not without a concerted effort from the people at the top and they won't make that effort because it requires making hard choices.

Agreed.

Too far gone. And if they can't get rid of staff that is not required, it will never be fixed. We will be paying R100 per kw/h and still be down the tubes.