Eskom's severe skills shortage evokes big race debate

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Eskom's severe skills shortage evokes big race debate

Eskom employees are divided on the role that race-based transformation has played in the skills shortage that is hampering the utility's ability to keep the lights on, Sunday Times reports.

It also reported that Eskom is struggling to staff all the shifts at its coal power stations due to a rapid loss of technical skills.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Haaibo! It takes skill to blow up a newly built power station to Kingdom Come.

 

[Fulcrum29]

The media is reporting a race row... who said what at Eskom?

 

[blah99]

The media is reporting a race row... who said what at Eskom?

The media loves to make up race rows.

 

[obs]

The media loves to make up race rows.

Excellent Click Bait

 

[Gazg]

How does it go.........you reap what you sew.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Eskom's severe skills shortage evokes big race debate

Eskom employees are divided on the role that race-based transformation has played in the skills shortage that is hampering the utility's ability to keep the lights on, Sunday Times reports.

It also reported that Eskom is struggling to staff all the shifts at its coal power stations due to a rapid loss of technical skills.

No worries; we've got a queen to run wakanda 2.0

/everyone grab their zulu gear and suit up!
/wakanda forever!

 

[Deandbn]

What a Croc of shi*t.. Fire the bas*ards that don't want to work and get people that do.

 

[Oldfut]

What a Croc of shi*t.. Fire the bas*ards that don't want to work and get people that do.

My sense is that many of the lazy, useless and crooked are ANC deployees or their chums with "race" just being the usual Mbeki excuse when they are criticised. Being close to the ANC "leadership" means they cannot get fired, as long as they keep the tenderpreneuring and backhanders flowing. Quality of their work is waaaaay down the list.

 

[j4ck455]

The union told MyBroadband it had amassed more than 1,100 names of people with engineering, technical, and general skills willing to help Eskom restore generation capacity.

It is now planning to appoint a panel to work the list down to around 100 candidates with the best skills and most extensive experience.

So Solidarity has a list of 1100+ people and is now wasting time on cutting that list down to 100 people?

For what reason and why does it have to be 100 people?

Those experienced people that are available (as in willing and able to put up with eSkommel's crap) will be far fewer than than the 1100+ people on the initial list, just send all the names to Pravin and be done with it.

Besides, if these are all people with previous experience at eSkommel, you can bet that eSkommel's own HR department has a list of all the same people and just doesn't want them because they are mostly too pale faced.

If Pravin really intends to get some of these people back (presumably as contractors/advisers), he first needs to explain how he is going to bypass eSkommel's own internal processes that have been put in place to get rid of pale faced people.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Regardless of how you tell the story, the ending remains the same - FAILURE.

 

[Chappies_ZA]

After 29 years, it’s time to put the racial aspect aside and get people to fix Eskom. I think the 28 years speak for itself. Time to move on focus on the correct skills with experience.

 

[Petec]

That second picture in the article is RACIST!!!

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

I miss the days when races meant running

 

[Paul_S]

After 29 years, it’s time to put the racial aspect aside and get people to fix Eskom. I think the 28 years speak for itself. Time to move on focus on the correct skills with experience.

What planet country do you live on in? They'll just double down harder on racially discrimatory laws until there is nothing left.

Self-reliance is the future for those of us with pale skins.
Borehole, solar, fix own potholes, neighbourhood watches and CPF, etc.

 

[mojoman]

I miss the days when races meant running

And parts of bearings..

 

[mojoman]

TIA people...Just keep reminding yourself where you are...And what the future is...Look north.....
The rest will come naturally...

 

[Oldfut]

So Solidarity has a list of 1100+ people and is now wasting time on cutting that list down to 100 people?

For what reason and why does it have to be 100 people?

Those experienced people that are available (as in willing and able to put up with eSkommel's crap) will be far fewer than than the 1100+ people on the initial list, just send all the names to Pravin and be done with it.

Besides, if these are all people with previous experience at eSkommel, you can bet that eSkommel's own HR department has a list of all the same people and just doesn't want them because they are mostly too pale faced.

If Pravin really intends to get some of these people back (presumably as contractors/advisers), he first needs to explain how he is going to bypass eSkommel's own internal processes that have been put in place to get rid of pale faced people.

Very, very difficult for such people, regardless of qualification, experience and capability to be injected into line management (unlikely Gordhan knows anything about "management" having been a commie agitator rolling pills in a chemist shop). Best that could be achieved is to have some come in on contract to consult, design, put method and maintenance statements together and maybe mentor. But, from our little experience with Eskom, tough to get across to people who are inexperienced, under qualified and bound into (over) complicated structures.

 

[j4ck455]

Very, very difficult for such people, regardless of qualification, experience and capability to be injected into line management (unlikely Gordhan knows anything about "management" having been a commie agitator rolling pills in a chemist shop). Best that could be achieved is to have some come in on contract to consult, design, put method and maintenance statements together and maybe mentor. But, from our little experience with Eskom, tough to get across to people who are inexperienced, under qualified and bound into (over) complicated structures.

My understanding is that there is a shortage of experienced engineers and technicians, whilst there is a surplus of useless 30 percenter people including managers.

I seriously doubt that pale faced people would be appointed on a permanent basis, I expect they would be contracted for a short period of time to identify key problems which the 30 percenters would then have to fix, add the usual rinse and repeat to all that.

 

[LCBXX]

I thought unfettered ANC looting of Eskom is the primary cause?

Thank goodness it's only racism!