Finance minister criticizes Eskom's De Ruyter

Mekon said:
What is your point? In your opinion is De Ryter not doing his job? Trying to get a dumpster fire that is Eskom on track? Would any cANCer cadre be better. How many CEO's have there been since load shedding started in 2007. It's been a long history of corruption and incompetence. But when things are well and truly falling apart he comes in to try save the mess left behind by corrupt thieving cadres. But because he is white he has a huge target on his back. Or am I according to you wrong.
Do you feel all the cANCer cadres had it under control at any point.
Like the 2 new power stations that are years overdue and billions over budget. You know all under control.
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Oh please, De Ruyter is incompetent, he runs to the media complaining about municipalities not following loadshedding, he could have cut them off and made a statement but no even that was too much for him to handle.

De Ruyter took the job knowing exactly what Eskom was.
Right now he is the CEO and the buck stops with him, if he can't function no matter the reason then he needs to leave.
 
LiPO said:
Was the car in working order when it was sold, was the new owner aware of any faults, yes he was.
He chose the wrong maintenance route. He used Toyota mechanics to service the BMW. Whose fault is that? You would probably blame the government like everyone else is doing.

Having seen this guy in interviews the past weeks. He’s not the right guy for the job. Not in my opinion. He should be the CEO of Twinsaver, he would do very well there.
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Every time you open your mouth you confirm it.
 
eSkommel needs to properly investigate deliberate sabotage (both internal as well as by external contractors).

Start with a list of which employees regularly get paid the most amount of overtime, then look at which so called maintenance failures could have been prevented and were not.

Also put better finance controls in place: it should not be possible for R100m to be spent every month at Tutuka on the same thing, that crap needs to be stopped by immediately closing the money tap that has been left running for who knows how long.
 
Intox said:
he could have cut them off and made a statement but no even that was too much for him to handle.
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Do you reckon he could without consequence, both to the ANC (during these elections) and himself?
 
Intox said:
Oh please, De Ruyter is incompetent, he runs to the media complaining about municipalities not following loadshedding, he could have cut them off and made a statement but no even that was too much for him to handle.

De Ruyter took the job knowing exactly what Eskom was.
Right now he is the CEO and the buck stops with him, if he can't function no matter the reason then he needs to leave.
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Tosser already said he won't leave voluntarily. He like his predecessors will milk Eskom and the country until they are fired.
 
Intox said:
Oh please, De Ruyter is incompetent, he runs to the media complaining about municipalities not following loadshedding, he could have cut them off and made a statement but no even that was too much for him to handle.

De Ruyter took the job knowing exactly what Eskom was.
Right now he is the CEO and the buck stops with him, if he can't function no matter the reason then he needs to leave.
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...and with sabotage? How would you handle that, since you're coming across as a bit of an expert in business and energy.
 
So the last 26 years a certain group have proven they are unable to run companies, businesses, municipalities, provinces and countries, lit a stick of dynamite and then handed it to the new guy and said, now don't let it explode.
Let's face it, we need to get MORE educated and skilled people in to get things right and give the 20 years at least to make progress. When all the bananas are stolen and eaten and the trees chopped down, you need to plant more trees and give them time to grow and bear fruit before you can eat them....
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
So the Sunday Times made De Ruyter the "Mampara of the Week. Christ, the standards in journalism are so low in SA.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1459782482124021760

Disgusted.
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Lol, why did they call him that? Did you read it? Not sure why you'd be disgusted. De Ruyter has hard job, impossible even maybe, but he did make certain promises and his habit of placing blame on lowly subordinates is unCEO. It shows a failure management, his ultimately. Why is he cut so much slack by you and others?
Gwede and Nersa affect price and new capacity, the point is the current fleet is failing and the CEO promised to fix it in 18 months.
 
Bighit said:
When you buy a car, it's supposed to go for an annual service. You skip 3 years of services and you sell the car. Then the new owner must go and service the car. Whose fault is it for the car breaking down?
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Shame the new owner was so dof he didn't know to check the service manual :whistling:
 
R13... said:
Lol, why did they call him that? Did you read it? Not sure why you'd be disgusted. De Ruyter has hard job, impossible even maybe, but he did make certain promises and his habit of placing blame on lowly subordinates is unCEO. It shows a failure management, his ultimately. Why is he cut so much slack by you and others?
Gwede and Nersa affect price and new capacity, the point is the current fleet is failing and the CEO promised to fix it in 18 months.
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If one were to focus on the energy sector and want to blame someone, the Mampara of the Week would have to Mantashe, rather than De Ruyter for his extremely stupid comments about not abandoning coal in favour of renewable energy and moving a the speed of a sloth in announcing new capacity (especially in relation to the IPP programme).

De Ruyter is trying to clamp down on entrenched criminal networks, many of whom are obviously Eskom employees, catch up on maintenance which was not done during the Molefe & Koko years and deal with huge fraud in the procurement department. Give the man a break!
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
If one were to focus on the energy sector and want to blame someone, the Mampara of the Week would have to Mantashe, rather than De Ruyter for his extremely stupid comments about not abandoning coal in favour of renewable energy and moving a the speed of a sloth in announcing new capacity (especially in relation to the IPP programme).

De Ruyter is trying to clamp down on entrenched criminal networks, many of whom are obviously Eskom employees, catch up on maintenance which was not done during the Molefe & Koko years and deal with huge fraud in the procurement department. Give the man a break!
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I'm sure there are many contenders for mampara on a weekly basis, but the biggest game in town this past week has been crippling loadshedding and De Ruyter is kinda the man on charge of the loadshedding entity.
 
R13... said:
I'm sure there are many contenders for mampara on a weekly basis, but the biggest game in town this past week has been crippling loadshedding and De Ruyter is kinda the man on charge of the loadshedding entity.
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I am also sure Gwede has had the honour already for his part.
 
Danie_V said:
It's really not often that you hear that reactive repairs are better than doing planned maintenance! We've got where we are today through a lack of good planned maintenance. That said, I'd like to hear what the problems were with the brand new power stations that went offline. We have not really heard a thorough unpacking of that, and it probably warrants an independent investigation. Was it just negligence, or also attributed to routine maintenance that did not take place.
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They went offline because they were testing some items without following the correct safety protocols and pretty much blew part of it up. Pure negligence.
 
De Ruyter wanted to rather build a pot of gold, than to fix the power stations and then go after green energy. Its useless trying to do it, if the blackouts happen.
 
j4ck455 said:
eSkommel needs to properly investigate deliberate sabotage (both internal as well as by external contractors).

Start with a list of which employees regularly get paid the most amount of overtime, then look at which so called maintenance failures could have been prevented and were not.

Also put better finance controls in place: it should not be possible for R100m to be spent every month at Tutuka on the same thing, that crap needs to be stopped by immediately closing the money tap that has been left running for who knows how long.
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Problem is they refuse to pay quite a few, so they downed tools to keep maintaining.
 
But exactly right. He took on the job, he should call the shots, and he is the captain in charge.

He should start connecting to IPP or role out solar arrays. At the moment the people doing all this are companies thats had enough and have been going on its own. Many a large corporation in SA are using their roofing and parking spaces for solar, let alone build their own solar fields.

The mines are building mega solar power stations to disconnect from Eskom.

Sure load shedding would be less, but so will their paying customers. They will loose a lot. Last time they went from house to house with lightbulbs, geyser duvets etc. This time, they know if they do that, they will loose income too, so they wont.

It actually benefits Eskom to have load shedding. Each time it happens they get more money, or can push through very high increases, because well the people need electricity.

Sad to say, best in SA. Go your own solar and wind route and cut your reliance on Eskom completely. Thats the best option long term. So when everything goes broken, youre still lit up like a christmas tree, when your neigbhours fridges are bust.
 
LiPO said:
I’d do it in my first month.
It’s easy to pick out the trouble makers in just one meeting. Those that are with you and those that are against you. Get rid of them regardless, send a message.
Once you cut a few from the top. The message filters down very fast.
He had licence to do so.
If his role was to focus on maintenance, you target their business sector first.
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Do you know how many staff Eskom has? Do you know the procedure for firing people in SA?

Besides, what makes you think he hasnt done just that?
 
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