Oh well, I can imagine de Ruyter's issues with this idea. First his ANC baas would tell him "aikona". Then, if implemented, Project Ballie would probably show up many, many inexperienced, incompetent and corrupt "engineers" and the like, all at inflated salaries. Worst of all, as noted, would be if the Ballie Brigade actually got things fixed and running; that would show up the 1994 Eskom ANC Project as the failure it is.
Amusing too is what the ballies would find on re-entry into Eskom, few competent artisans, contractors or clerks etc, no petty cash, little care for the quality of work, little maintenance and a tender system that is likely to spit out an incompetent contractor after a long delay. The ballies would be risking their health!
Funnily enough some ballies are already partly in the Eskom woodwork, only existing because Eskom don't seem to have people who can do a design, put drawings for construction together and get a job built, even with all the bs relating to their incompetence and borderline corruption (making the contractor use "local" labour, plant and transport, none mentioned in their contract document). Some of the ballies do quite well out of these projects.
The Eskom engineers the ballies interface with are young, pleasant and sharp but very inexperienced and with no mentors or senior engineers in sight who can guide them. Their procurement policies are crazy as well. Less said about this the better.
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