"Goodbye Eskom" — Sikonathi Mantshantsha

[Hanno Labuschagne]

"Goodbye Eskom" — Sikonathi Mantshantsha

Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha will be leaving the utility at the end of February 2023.

Mantshantsha's departure comes at the end of his three-year fixed-term contract at Eskom.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Down comes the house of cards...

 

[r00igev@@r]

Was he an AMDR man?

 

[r00igev@@r]

Down comes the house of cards...

A house of cards generates more power than ESKOM.

 

[Grieta Thanburg]

But who will post the stats now? I wish the guy all the best wherever he goes next.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Was he an AMDR man?

Guy had a solid background before joining. Don't think he had any allegiances one way or the other...

Before his tenure at the utility, he worked as a journalist for the Scorpio & Daily Maverick, Business Day & Financial Mail, Bloomberg, and Fin24.

During that time, Eskom was one of Mantshantsha’s main covered topics.

 

[Sinbad]

I don't think there's anything more at play here than the end of a contract... ? Fixed term contracts are just that, they tend not to automatically roll over.

 

[zll]

Hope Eskom continues their daily updates with him leaving.

But ya, anyone with half a brain cell is jumping ship or will be soon. Eskom is DOA and just needs to be taken out back and laid to rest.

 

[Parched]

Good luck to him, wasn't an easy job and was more open than some I can remember in the role, even dared to mention "stage 7" in his final days. Given his replacement apparently dealt with "challenging issues like Soweto’s electricity debt" I guess she's warmed up for the hot seat.

 

[Itsa Trap]

Well, fixed or not I think ANC electrical put the siek in Sikonathi. Poor man probably needs a year or two of therapy now.

 

[BBSA]

Hope Eskom continues their daily updates with him leaving.

But ya, anyone with half a brain cell is jumping ship or will be soon. Eskom is DOA and just needs to be taken out back and laid to rest.

Not sure why he got on the ship in the first place.....

 

[FlashSA]

But who will post the stats now? I wish the guy all the best wherever he goes next.

Big loss. I review his Eskom peak tweet every night.

They're going dark, excuse the pun, and we're all just going to get news via Eskom se Push only from here on out :-/

 

[Solver]

Now who's going to tell us what make believe loadshedding stage we're on?

 

[6spdmanual]

Now. I haven’t been on Earth long. But fûck me. The second paragraph below might be the worst piece of crap I’ve ever read.

 

[FiestaST]

Depending who you ask he had the easiest job in the world or the hardest job in the world.

 

[DapperDanMan]

I haven’t been on Earth long. But fûck me.

Sir, respectfully, you have to put such requests in the Off Topic section in a separate thread.

 

[Paulsie]

Was it the Stage 8 Stage 7 Stage 6 that did it for him?

 

[Harmonic]

A house of cards generates more power than ESKOM.

So does a potato apparently

 

[Lucas Buck]

A thankless job. It's like being the white house press secretary or the presidential spokesperson. You're on a hiding to nothing.

 

[FlashSA]

Was it the Stage 8 Stage 7 Stage 6 that did it for him?

Good question. They probably came down on him for showing us all 7000mw of load reduction. Honesty in a SOE really isn't the best policy when it comes to self preservation.