Eskom refuses to acknowledge September 2021 promise

[m4tic]

he's outstayed his post in my opinion. At this stage it won't do any worse than it is to have somebody give it a go as well.

 

[Lupus]

he's outstayed his post in my opinion. At this stage it won't do any worse than it is to have somebody give it a go as well.

What exactly would changing CEOs achieve?

 

[R13...]

What exactly would changing CEOs achieve?

More instability, which is what some want.

 

[eye_suc]

What exactly would changing CEOs achieve?

It would most definitely waste time. New CEO must come up to speed with all the corruption and which lines to toe.

And he will probably only be replaced with a Molefe type to resume the plundering, since there is lots of foreign money incoming for green energy.

 

[Lupus]

More instability, which is what some want.

Seems like it, listening to the media brief this morning he seems he is honestly trying, a lot more then I can say from previous CEOs.

 

[SubtleBeast]

And he will probably only be replaced with a Molefe type to resume the plundering, since there is lots of foreign money incoming for green energy.

Good timing for these "hit pieces" on de Ruyter.
So if he goes, incoming CEO nicely poised to collude with Department M&E and IPP Office to get those billions into the "right" pockets.

 

[eye_suc]

Good timing for these "hit pieces" on de Ruyter.
So if he goes, incoming CEO nicely poised to collude with Department M&E and IPP Office to get those billions into the "right" pockets.

Probably exactly the reason. Money is tight and the ANC is broke. Time to resume the stealing.

 

[SubtleBeast]

Probably exactly the reason. Money is tight and the ANC is broke. Time to resume the stealing.

Resuming means it actually stopped.
/getting those Digital Vibes.

 

[m4tic]

What exactly would changing CEOs achieve?

New balls

 

[TheChamp]

It would most definitely waste time. New CEO must come up to speed with all the corruption and which lines to toe.

And he will probably only be replaced with a Molefe type to resume the plundering, since there is lots of foreign money incoming for green energy.

Why would he be replaced with a Molefe type? We don't do that in the New Dawn, what this implies is that you see anyone who is not a De Ruyter as a Molefe type because the post Zuma administration has no history of appointing the Molefe type.

 

[TheChamp]

Good timing for these "hit pieces" on de Ruyter.
So if he goes, incoming CEO nicely poised to collude with Department M&E and IPP Office to get those billions into the "right" pockets.

No Eskom CEO was ever spared of these "hit pieces" either by MyBb or any other media house, problem is that for some reason you think De Ruyter should not be criticized or held accountable.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

why does anybody believe these promises, honestly,
do people have the attention span of goldfish?

 

[TheChamp]

why does anybody believe these promises, honestly,
do people have the attention span of goldfish?

You'd think the person making the promises would be the one held accountable, not the one who believes the promises.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

You'd think the person making the promises would be the one held accountable, not the one who believes the promises.

both in equal measure,
but again deflect deflect not our fault, its apartheid fault...

 

[Antfour]

Godongwana told the Sunday Times that, unlike previous Eskom CEOs, De Ruyter was “given the luxury of taking out generating units for planned maintenance”.

“He was allowed to do planned maintenance the other guys were not allowed to do. We don’t see the results of that planned maintenance,” Godongwana said.

He openly admitted that previous CEO's were not permitted to do planned maintenance. And there in the seeds were sown for what we now reap. A power station consists of many moving parts, some in an extremely aggressive environment and without planned maintenance these units will just destroy them selves over time until they fail. And if one mechanical part fails like a chain conveyor you can be sure that the guides, shafts etc need to be replaced as well, otherwise they will speed up the destruction of the new component, turning a small breakdown into a huge costly task.

 

[wingnut771]

Is Eskom going to sue the minister for telling lies? According to @rpm, there was higher maintenance under Koko.

 

[Temujin]

Sabotage... need to get our tenderer friends in now, this one is arresting us all

 

[ToxicBunny]

New balls

Which achieves what specifically?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

The water isn't out, it's reduced and I've not had any water issues and I'm in western gauteng, but I am a low laying area.

Been out most of Monday and the whole of today for us.

Some carp about rand water being unable to pump to the reservoir so they have to divert from Vereeniging...

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Nobody can fix Eskom while the ANC and the unions are involved. They are the problem.

Everyone who has identified this has (or is starting to) make a plan to secure their electricity needs.

Nothing will change for the next 3 years, and even then they will probably still win the next election. So we're stuck with this for the next 8 years.

Water is going to be the next crisis. It's another piece of critical infrastructure that hasn't been properly maintained. Boreholes are about to become the next solar...