Explosion at Eskom's Camden Power Station

[Ferog]

Isn't it also going to be shut down in 3-4 years?

 

[Lupus]

Hello Darkness My Old Friend.....

It hasn't really run properly since last year, 1 200MW unit isn't going to really cause that.

 

[Lupus]

Hello Darkness My Old Friend.....

It hasn't really run properly since last year, 1 200MW unit isn't going to really cause that.

 

[r00igev@@r]

It hasn't really run properly since last year, 1 200MW unit isn't going to really cause that.

Nothing to see here. Just left the curry on the boil on the primus stove overnight....

 

[lkswan747]

It hasn't really run properly since last year, 1 200MW unit isn't going to really cause that.

This is Escum we are talking about! Starts off small and ends with Stage 4/6!

 

[Willie Trombone]

We are the world!!!!

 

[The Trutherizer]

SABOTAGE.

It would not be a risky bet.

 

[boboudts]

So this is what the anc mean by "transformation"?

 

[swim]

Aaah, the joys, is it sabotage...crap maintenance or just plain old stupidity?
Roll the dice. lets find out...

I pick stupidity, and i know im right.

 

[system32]

Just another one, and another one, and another..... So timely and conveniently one after the other.

Timed with the request for 20.5% increase begging bowl.

Every time there is a request for increased tariffs something "fails" to provide evidence they need more funds for maintenance.

 

[grok]

Timed with the request for 20.5% increase begging bowl.

Every time there is a request for increased tariffs something "fails" to provide evidence they need more funds for maintenance.

Under the ANC blackmail has become a legit business strategy, typical criminal syndicate really, but the world wanted them to govern SA. Enjoy your poverty..

 

[system32]

Under the ANC blackmail has become a legit business strategy, typical criminal syndicate really, but the world wanted them to govern SA. Enjoy your poverty..

+1
True many cases of sabotage related to losing business.

Sabotage of rail favours mini-bus.
Sabotage of water favours tankers.
Sabotage of rail favours truck coal delivery.
Sabotage of plant favours diesel vendors.
etc

 

[rh1]

It's a distraction while also forcing eskom to commit dwindling resources to fix it, which while distracted a much bigger power plant suffers an explosion which conveniently requires resources already spent on fixing this power plant, forcing eskom to issue a tender for a tenderprenuer to get rich on.

At a previous company, they bought out a small player, who had a contract in place to buy the "rejects" from the production line. Funny enough, the rejects continued to grow exponentially and was consistently over 50%. The unit manager was convinced it was the previous owner who were bribing the staff to damage the output, thereby increasing the quantity of product he could buy.


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One man's sabotage is another man's income stream

This is so true

 

[Supervan II]

At a previous company, they bought out a small player, who had a contract in place to buy the "rejects" from the production line. Funny enough, the rejects continued to grow exponentially and was consistently over 50%. The unit manager was convinced it was the previous owner who were bribing the staff to damage the output, thereby increasing the quantity of product he could buy.

Undoubtedly. Take Cadbury's for instance:
They had a factory shop on site where, amongst others, one could buy reject chocolates/crunchies/etc and these were also sold to their staff at further discounted prices. One could only buy what was available off-the-shelf and only in limited quantities, lest they be re-sold to the public. One delicacy that was almost always in short supply were the broken chunks of Crunchie, such was the nature of the production process.

What transpired? Staff were buying in bulk, especially the broken Crunchie base, and selling them at a healthy mark-up to all and sundry - even some spaza shops had a steady supply. Production staff were always ensuring that there were sufficient quantities of broken Crunchie, amongst others, to be had. When the cat was (eventually) let out the bag this practice was stopped. Yet there were no less "breakages" to be sold at the factory shop, only to be immediately bought up by staff to maintain the supply-lines.

Eventually they had to close the shop and dump said rejects due to this. All of a sudden there was less wastage, go figure!

 

[rh1]

Undoubtedly. Take Cadbury's for instance:
They had a factory shop on site where, amongst others, one could buy reject chocolates/crunchies/etc and these were also sold to their staff at further discounted prices. One could only buy what was available off-the-shelf and only in limited quantities, lest they be re-sold to the public. One delicacy that was almost always in short supply were the broken chunks of Crunchie, such was the nature of the production process.

What transpired? Staff were buying in bulk, especially the broken Crunchie base, and selling them at a healthy mark-up to all and sundry - even some spaza shops had a steady supply. Production staff were always ensuring that there were sufficient quantities of broken Crunchie, amongst others, to be had. When the cat was (eventually) let out the bag this practice was stopped. Yet there were no less "breakages" to be sold at the factory shop, only to be immediately bought up by staff to maintain the supply-lines.

Eventually they had to close the shop and dump said rejects due to this. All of a sudden there was less wastage, go figure!

It was also in the food industry (biscuits), the previous owner made those big broken bags of biscuits which he sold to the general public. The business (biscuit factory) actually closed down as there were no profits to be made.

 

[Lupus]

It was also in the food industry (biscuits), the previous owner made those big broken bags of biscuits which he sold to the general public. The business (biscuit factory) actually closed down as there were no profits to be made.

A certain brands company I worked for allowed staff to buy things for discounts back in the day, until a lot of their products ended up in spaza shops.

 

[Supervan II]

It was also in the food industry (biscuits), the previous owner made those big broken bags of biscuits which he sold to the general public. The business (biscuit factory) actually closed down as there were no profits to be made.

Yup, Pyotts.

 

[rh1]

Yup, Pyotts.

Actually, a very short foray into the biscuit market by another food company.