Eskom to launch crowdsourcing platform to find critical skills

[TelkomUseless]

Correct;

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1571382753631047682

Yea.. keep that racial quotas even it means the country sits in the dark.

Shows you the hate for white people the government has.

 

[Lucas Buck]

Skills shortfall is the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. For the past 5 years 80 percent of Eskom's vacancies have been internal only. De Ruyter is just gaslighting

Anything to give the impression that they're busy doing something useful.

 

[Calkem]

Eish Calkem, I think the rot is far, far deeper than that. Too many incompetent and corrupt right through who cannot be fired (they share the loot through much of the rotten system). Then you need expertise from Eskom, contractors and specialist suppliers. Much of it has gone, the rest battle to comply with BEE and AA, often made up on the site and adding cost and time to anything contracted for. Just a single power station is a seriously complicated beast.

True 100%....

Its Eskom is rotten to the core, right down to the seeds DNA. Apart of the rot also is within the contractors as well, as they are affiliated with the ruling class at the time. the rot is at the top mainly, just a few months back I remember I had a conversation with a Eskom electrician who I last saw 23 years ago (I was still a lad then) and he laid bare on how things have changed for the worst.

 

[TheChamp]

Yea.. keep that racial quotas even it means the country sits in the dark.

Shows you the hate for white people the government has.

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

 

[G'Wobblez]

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

Why should it matter. This is a crises.
When you are dying you don’t care what colour the doctor are just that he is the qualified experienced doctor.

I don’t care if my food comes from a purple farmer as long as they are farming.

This is not ‘normal’ times. You shouldn’t care about race. Just who can do the job properly.

You are way to hung up on quotas in times like these. The right quotas is what got us here in the first place.

 

[wingnut771]

Why should it matter. This is a crises.
When you are dying you don’t care what colour the doctor are just that he is the qualified experienced doctor.

I don’t care if my food comes from a purple farmer as long as they are farming.

This is not ‘normal’ times. You shouldn’t care about race. Just who can do the job properly.

You are way to hung up on quotas in times like these. The right quotas is what got us here in the first place.

The house is on fire because of quotas but still want quotas. It explains a lot.

 

[Oldfut]

Why should it matter. This is a crises.
When you are dying you don’t care what colour the doctor are just that he is the qualified experienced doctor.

I don’t care if my food comes from a purple farmer as long as they are farming.

This is not ‘normal’ times. You shouldn’t care about race. Just who can do the job properly.

You are way to hung up on quotas in times like these. The right quotas is what got us here in the first place.

Aye, is it a Chinese proverb; "the colour of the cat doesn't matter as long as it catches rats". We need a few of those but Afrika, eish!

 

[ToxicBunny]

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

And that is fundamentally an issue, why is inclusivity even a consideration when we're in this fsck up... Fix the issue then worry about inclusivity.

 

[TelkomUseless]

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

We have been having inclusivity for 30 years... and here we are. In the dark, with limited electricity...

 

[Phylax]

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

Why balance out anything? Why not just take the best, no matter where they come from?!

 

[Phylax]

"Inclusive" in South-Africa is code for "less white people".

 

[azbob]

The house is on fire because of quotas but still want quotas. It explains a lot.

The house is on fire and all the firemen that arrived to extinguish it are white. No thanks. Where are the black firemen?

 

[TheChamp]

Why should it matter. This is a crises.
When you are dying you don’t care what colour the doctor are just that he is the qualified experienced doctor.

I don’t care if my food comes from a purple farmer as long as they are farming.

This is not ‘normal’ times. You shouldn’t care about race. Just who can do the job properly.

You are way to hung up on quotas in times like these. The right quotas is what got us here in the first place.

Well getting all 300 white people in was still not going to solve the crisis, Eskom's problems are much more complicated than throwing 300 white people at the problem and watching it disappear right before your eyes. I also don't think they have the capacity to employ 300 highly skilled people anyway so at most the total number of people they take will at most be half of that number.

 

[TheChamp]

Why balance out anything? Why not just take the best, no matter where they come from?!

They have taken 18 of the best people from Solidarity.

 

[G'Wobblez]

Well getting all 300 white people in was still not going to solve the crisis, Eskom's problems are much more complicated than throwing 300 white people at the problem and watching it disappear right before your eyes. I also don't think they have the capacity to employ 300 highly skilled people anyway so at most the total number of people they take will at most be half of that number.

Never said they should get 300 White people.
300 skilled people will go a long way to solve the problem. No matter their skin colour.
If this was their stance from 2008 when LS started the problem would have been less.
But now they are hung up on quotas and rather not employ any one. Or employ people not skilled to do the job.

Look at our ministers. Its a great example of employing people not qualified to do the job.

 

[G'Wobblez]

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7142900983218195718

 

[wingnut771]

And that is fundamentally an issue, why is inclusivity even a consideration when we're in this fsck up... Fix the issue then worry about inclusivity.

Don't worry about it. It will sort itself out naturally over time.

 

[Phylax]

Eskom appoints 18 from Solidarity’s list of 300 skilled engineers — while being hamstrung by politics

The relatively small number of appointees is reportedly due to the utility facing an uphill battle against political leaders over the “inclusivity” of its skills procurement plans.

mybroadband.co.za

"The relatively small number of appointees is reportedly due to the utility facing an uphill battle against political leaders over the “inclusivity” of its skills procurement plans."

Why are this raw, unfiltered racism not being called out for what it is?!

 

[RVQ]

18 white people appointed is a good number, there were calls to all relevant stakeholders not just Solidarity so they will want to balance that out across the board.

And maybe the number would be higher if Solidarity's list was more inclusive. Some homework for them to attract a more diverse group of experts.

Correct there were calls to everyone, so why didn't NUMSA produce a list, why aren't these politicians producing a list. You buying into their same narrative of producing problems rather than solutions, "I want this but you must do it for me or I will scream and cry!".

They should come to the table with their lists of highly skilled individuals and it wouldnt matter their race, gender, religion or sexual preference because if they can get the job done extremely well their success will lead to a stable Eskom that would improve economic growth, encourage investment, generate more tax which can be used to empower the disadvantaged black child through improved education, health and basic services.

There are many transformation and diversity battles to be fought this is not one of them as this affects the black child more than it will the white child!

 

[Phylax]

Well getting all 300 white people in was still not going to solve the crisis, Eskom's problems are much more complicated than throwing 300 white people at the problem and watching it disappear right before your eyes. I also don't think they have the capacity to employ 300 highly skilled people anyway so at most the total number of people they take will at most be half of that number.

Just get the best, no matter the color of their skin?