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Once the political appointments start the good leadership moves out pretty quick and the competent engineers not long after. Most competent people don't have much time for nonsense and have a lot of opportunities to move to other sectors so don't hang around for long.
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Whilst generally true, electricians and managers get paid pretty darn well by Eskom and lots of perks like cheap bonds and stuff that lock people in.

Yes good electrical engineers or mechanical engineers with degrees etc. will likely emigrated, your less academic more technical skilled employees would not find it quite as easy -- and if not emigrating, they would have been remunerated pretty well at Eskom so why leave?
 
richjdavies said:
Whilst generally true, electricians and managers get paid pretty darn well by Eskom and lots of perks like cheap bonds and stuff that lock people in.

Yes good electrical engineers or mechanical engineers with degrees etc. will likely emigrated, your less academic more technical skilled employees would not find it quite as easy -- and if not emigrating, they would have been remunerated pretty well at Eskom so why leave?
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Mostly because working in a toxic environment is not sustainable for someone with pride in their work. They either need to surrender and do nothing or join the corrupt. Giving up your morals for a good salary is not all that easy.

It also kind of proves my point. If all the engineers left and its mostly operational technicians left then there is a serious problem.
 
More straightforward for me - trust the Sunday Times source, which has a huge reputation to uphold, or a mistrusting logical concept debate among public participants.

Yes, we've got every reason to be suspicious and there's a lot of abuse all round, but let's not guess at an environment we actually have no knowledge of.
Before winter ended these professionals kept things going much better than now, for years.

As for my concern about this article being a possible ruse by Eskom - too many times their stats don't make sense, and now after lying that they're not trying to get rid of 500 White employees they've been caught out planning to do so.
 
News24 makes it clearer;

If government decides to declare a state of disaster to deal with the ongoing power crisis, Local Government and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will once again be the ANC’s de facto choice to handle this situation, as she did during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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That is looking a lot better, haven't seen it like this for a longScreenshot_20230205_144029_com.android.chrome.jpg
 
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