Unions and business council bay for De Ruyter's blood

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André de Ruyter's day of reckoning has arrived

The Black Business Council (BBC) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have called on Eskom CEO André de Ruyter to resign, but he said he would not resign on of his own accord.

De Ruyter has been under fire after South Africa experienced the worst load-shedding it has ever seen under his leadership.
 
Unions are baying for his bloody most likely because they never got their huge increases they asked for; BBC...they were dead quiet when the other CEOs watched as Eskom was looted or no maintenance was done. Why are they all of a sudden so vocal?

Luckily we have government that can make the necessary calls on who works at Eskom, so no need to worry about greedy TUs or some unknown council that has suddenly decided to make their voice heard.
 
Lol, this is a interesting one, he took a pay cut and doesn't indicate ambitions to what he has so short of them firing him, he has no personal need to resign save his personal honour which he's done nothing I've seen to compromise that.

What to do, what to do :D Don't think unions or government have ever faced that before :p
 
Can't see why he has to resign.
This crisis is not his fault.
It's the fault of those who steal spares and diesel.
It's the fault of the "network of corruption" within ESKOM.
It's the fault of the municipalities that don't loadshed when asked to.
 
NoLuck Chuck said:
Can't see why he has to resign.
This crisis is not his fault.
It's the fault of those who steal spares and diesel.
It's the fault of the "network of corruption" within ESKOM.
It's the fault of the municipalities that don't loadshed when asked to.
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Lol...
Cadre logic....
Thats all the reason you need....
 
Can we get the BBC and NUM to force the ANC to resign and change the "jockey" to a new party
 
Unfortunately this loadshedding is the reality when you don't plan for new capital expenditure 10+ years in advance; and keep running the stations to "keep on the lights" instead of doing maintenance. And lost critical intellectual capital in the company (as is evident with the design problems at the 2 new power stations).
 
Billions of Rand stolen that should have been used to maintain the power stations. That alone will take years to repair not a few . BEE also contributes by allowing incompetent people to handle repairs that requires a high degree of technical training which many BEE appointees do not have hence breakdowns occurring just after repairs.

The Black Business Council and Unions are just displaying their technical ignorance and lack of understanding power stations and the complexities of the generating systems.

Incompetence, stupidity and irresponsibility as displayed by the BBC and Unions is no basis for calling for a man's resignation.
 
Fixing any huge business takes years, planning and support. de Ruyter is fixing corruption, negligence, incompetence, he is laying the plans to move away from fossil fuels and he is doing an incredible job. I don't believe a single one of his detractors would be doing as good a job as he is.
 
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