Eskom CEO 'ignored' warnings

[Road runner]

Johannesburg - Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga was warned by an international energy expert that the utility was heading for a coal crisis, six months before the power crisis paralysed the country in January last year.

The expert, Susan Olsen, a partner at Wingfield Consultancy, a world-renowned oil and coal research group in Boston, Massachusetts, warned Maroga in a comprehensive report on the deterioration of the energy giant's coal stocks that the parastatal was heading for a crisis.

Olsen researched the issue for Eskom for two years, but her contract with the parastatal was abruptly cancelled within days of sending the report to Maroga and following an interview with him on the issue.

Nothing new, but it would be nice if these incompetent decision makers could pay for the mess they make. And not demand that the man on the street pays for it while he earns a fat salary.

 

[semiautomatix]

Yup, hide their heads in the dirt and expect to receive a bonus for doing so. Guess what? It's not going away you lazy incompetent b*****d!

 

[Flanders]

I hope that people will come together and tell Eskom to stuff their upcoming 40% increase up their overpaid backsides.

No doubt we'd face the old load shed trick again but **** 'em.

 

[bobby.quinne]

Johannesburg - Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga was warned by an international energy expert that the utility was heading for a coal crisis, six months before the power crisis paralysed the country in January last year.





Nothing new, but it would be nice if these incompetent decision makers could pay for the mess they make. And not demand that the man on the street pays for it while he earns a fat salary.

One has to hand it to the Arab countries...public floggings feels damn right fulfilling watching