Unions and business council bay for De Ruyter's blood

Jan

Jan

Who's the Boss?
Staff member
Joined
May 24, 2010
Messages
10,412
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.
 
J

JohnStarr

Executive Member
Joined
May 21, 2018
Messages
9,342
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.
 
Kosmik

Kosmik

Honorary Master
Joined
Sep 21, 2007
Messages
25,665
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
 
SubtleBeast

SubtleBeast

Expert Member
Joined
May 16, 2019
Messages
1,833
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.
 
PaulMurkin

PaulMurkin

Expert Member
Joined
Jan 31, 2020
Messages
3,455
agentrfr said:
Dear article writer - on that table, please include number of MWh put into maintenance. I think that will completely change the picture :)
Click to expand...
This... and the fact that the "unavailable capacity" number hasn't changed much since 2019 when I began to check
 
Went_For_Beer

Went_For_Beer

Expert Member
Joined
Feb 24, 2011
Messages
2,755
Can we get the BBC and NUM to force the ANC to resign and change the "jockey" to a new party
 
G

G.A.S

Senior Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2007
Messages
949
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).
 
G

Greville

New Member
Joined
Aug 10, 2015
Messages
4
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.
 
P

PaulDurham

Active Member
Joined
Jan 29, 2016
Messages
48
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.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top