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porchrat
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I'm just saying that you've closed the stable door after the horse has bolted.
You want to stop government interference in Eskom sell it to the private sector. That's the only way.
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Gordhan sends SOS to trade union Solidarity, accepts offer to help Eskom with critical skills
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You want to stop government interference in Eskom sell it to the private sector. That's the only way.
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Well politicians do continue to dictate the hirings and firings in SOEs and government departments. Employment allocations decided at branch meetings, councilors receiving CVs for hospitals clinical postings, etc.
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Of course. We can all be fairly certain it isn't Eskom itself that is preventing the firing of those thousand upon thousands of unnecessary employees. It's government interference.
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I think Solidarity has outplayed completely the commie b@stard here.
Lets say the minister is being genuine here and gives instruction to Eskom to accept these technical skills on the pain of death, and Eskom actually employs them. Well that leaves a turd on the shoes on Eskom and the ANC because someone can ask: "well why didn't you employ them before?"
But let's say the more likely scenario happens: Gordhan says Eskom should employ these skilled workers to address the skills shortage. Karen at Eskom's HR notes that employing these people would violate their racial bean counting policy and declines to employ them. Solidarity would obviously get notified of this when it happens. Which would make a very interesting court case, because Eskom would then have to explain to the court why they have a skills shortage so desperate that the minister has to get involved, but when skilled individuals do apply for the job, they are turned down because of their skin colour.
Lets say the minister is being genuine here and gives instruction to Eskom to accept these technical skills on the pain of death, and Eskom actually employs them. Well that leaves a turd on the shoes on Eskom and the ANC because someone can ask: "well why didn't you employ them before?"
But let's say the more likely scenario happens: Gordhan says Eskom should employ these skilled workers to address the skills shortage. Karen at Eskom's HR notes that employing these people would violate their racial bean counting policy and declines to employ them. Solidarity would obviously get notified of this when it happens. Which would make a very interesting court case, because Eskom would then have to explain to the court why they have a skills shortage so desperate that the minister has to get involved, but when skilled individuals do apply for the job, they are turned down because of their skin colour.
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It also has international implications. In about 2017 Solidarity presented its case against the SA Government at the UN about the racist practice of AA. SA was given 2 years to rectify the situation. They never did.
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UN is completely captured by the types of people that love racial discrimination against white people.
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Huh?
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Was it ever gone?
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Now,
I have no faith in government. I have very little faith in private sector. They will rip you off as well.
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True, they will rip you off but with one difference... If they don't supply, they don't get paid and they sit without a job. In a government position, they're certain of a job even if they do absolutely **** all.
Now in most proper countries (not that there's a lot of them anymore), if you as a government do not perform, you get kicked to the curb come next election, but in SA it works a bit different. You can **** on your people year on year and guess what, come next election day, they still vote for you without fail because you just have to tell them some mumbo jumbo, and that their ancestors will get angry if they don't vote for you, and that the boogie man will bring back apartheid (the T-shirt and streetwise KFC also helps) and Bob's your uncle, free reign to loot and pillage for the next 5 years.
Eskom hollowed out its engineering core with the BEE transformation wave.
That is not the natural order of handover at an engineering company. The old guard are supposed to train up and mentor the next generation of engineers, but that process was completely disrupted.
So even if they brought in loads of senior, hard working engineers, it would be years before that change would ripple out in the company and have a broader effect. This isn't just a matter of being a good/senior engineer, it takes years to skill up on the inner workings of complex projects as an outsider. This would be rebuilding their engineering core from scratch.
The seniors with the knowledge of the inner workings of Eskom and could make progress quickly were booted out and have moved on! You think they are going to come back to working for peanuts in a hostile environment?
Basically, the whole way Eskom has been handled is a complete clustervark.
That is not the natural order of handover at an engineering company. The old guard are supposed to train up and mentor the next generation of engineers, but that process was completely disrupted.
So even if they brought in loads of senior, hard working engineers, it would be years before that change would ripple out in the company and have a broader effect. This isn't just a matter of being a good/senior engineer, it takes years to skill up on the inner workings of complex projects as an outsider. This would be rebuilding their engineering core from scratch.
The seniors with the knowledge of the inner workings of Eskom and could make progress quickly were booted out and have moved on! You think they are going to come back to working for peanuts in a hostile environment?
Basically, the whole way Eskom has been handled is a complete clustervark.
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I dont know hey. They make good cigars.
Themba Godi labels Pravin Gordhan racist over Solidarity Eskom plan
The public enterprises minister’s department reached out to workers’ trade union Solidarity to provide power station engineers, senior artisans and plant operators in order to mitigate the crisis at state-owned power utility Eskom.
Playing the race card; nothing new to see here.
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Themba Godi labels Pravin Gordhan racist over Solidarity Eskom plan
The public enterprises minister’s department reached out to workers’ trade union Solidarity to provide power station engineers, senior artisans and plant operators in order to mitigate the crisis at state-owned power utility Eskom.www.iol.co.za
Playing the race card; nothing new to see here.
Its quite clear that Themba is in fact the racist.
Themba Godi labels Pravin Gordhan racist over Solidarity Eskom plan
The public enterprises minister’s department reached out to workers’ trade union Solidarity to provide power station engineers, senior artisans and plant operators in order to mitigate the crisis at state-owned power utility Eskom.
Playing the race card; nothing new to see here.
That is a blatant lie. In my family alone there were two senior (white) engineers, mechanical and electrical, each with 20+ years of experience at Eskom that were retrenched during the BEE transformation wave. They work in other North African countries now.
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Took much longer than I initially thought.Themba Godi labels Pravin Gordhan racist over Solidarity Eskom plan
The public enterprises minister’s department reached out to workers’ trade union Solidarity to provide power station engineers, senior artisans and plant operators in order to mitigate the crisis at state-owned power utility Eskom.
Playing the race card; nothing new to see here.