Was Eskom really sabotaged?

[BusinessTech]

Was Eskom really sabotaged?

Energy expert and former advisor to Eskom, Mike Rossouw, has questioned president Cyril Ramaphosa's claim that sabotage was one of the major contributing factors to stage 6 load shedding this past week.

 

[Sinbad]

Yes Eskom was sabotaged.

By the cadres deployed to manage it as they pillaged and plundered and looted the coffers dry.
By the anc as they dismantled governance and stole the future from SA.
By the unions as they held SA to ransom.

 

[gottagoon]

Yes Eskom was sabotaged.

By the cadres deployed to manage it as they pillaged and plundered and looted the coffers dry.
By the anc as they dismantled governance and stole the future from SA.
By the unions as they held SA to ransom.

And it's still ongoing. Sweet blue ****all is being done to get rid of the bloodsucking thieves that still have their jobs there.

 

[LD50]

Yes Eskom was sabotaged.

By the cadres deployed to manage it as they pillaged and plundered and looted the coffers dry.
By the anc as they dismantled governance and stole the future from SA.
By the unions as they held SA to ransom.

This post alone should close this thread lol

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

This post alone should close this thread lol

+1

 

[C4Cat]

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer reported it to our president, he didn't just make the claim out of nowhere

 

[Hemi300c]

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer reported it to our president, he didn't just make the claim out of nowhere

Your president

If you believe anything your party says then you deserve them.

Of course a promise of no load shedding during the December period because factory's are closed so no heavy burden. But they make out as if the problem is being solved.

 

[C4Cat]

Your president

If you believe anything your party says then you deserve them.

Of course a promise of no load shedding during the December period because factory's are closed so no heavy burden. But they make out as if the problem is being solved.

You didn't vote in the elections? Anyway, he is the elected president of the country and if you're a citizen of SA he's your president. My point was that it was the COO of Eskom who reported the sabotage to Ramaphosa, he didn't just make it up.

 

[Lynn Erasmus]

Actually, our system is limited to voting only for the party of our choice at local and national levels. We NEVER get to vote for presidential candidates, so it is incorrect to state that Ramaphosa is an 'elected' president. He is merely chosen by his party.

 

[R13...]

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer reported it to our president, he didn't just make the claim out of nowhere

The numbers on the claim don't add up. Eskom power station gen units are independent of each from what I know.

1. Can't lose 2000MW tripping any 2
2. There is not instrument as far as I know you can disconnect that would trip two boilers. There are some common equipment on power plants but sabotaging those risks more than two boilers.

 

[C4Cat]

The numbers on the claim don't add up. Eskom power station gen units are independent of each from what I know.

1. Can't lose 2000MW tripping any 2
2. There is not instrument as far as I know you can disconnect that would trip two boilers. There are some common equipment on power plants but sabotaging those risks more than two boilers.

I'm not an expert on how power plants operate (and I'm guessing neither are you) so there's no point making claims here that can't be verified either way. Take it up with the COO of Eskom. The president relies on him to report the situation.

 

[C4Cat]

Actually, our system is limited to voting only for the party of our choice at local and national levels. We NEVER get to vote for presidential candidates, so it is incorrect to state that Ramaphosa is an 'elected' president. He is merely chosen by his party.

Irrelevant, when you voted you knew, and agreed, you were voting for a party to run the government and you knew, and agreed, you were voting for the winning party to elect the president.

 

[Dups!]

Actually, our system is limited to voting only for the party of our choice at local and national levels. We NEVER get to vote for presidential candidates, so it is incorrect to state that Ramaphosa is an 'elected' president. He is merely chosen by his party.

So, who is your president?

 

[Nanfeishen]

It would not surprise me in the least if it was true.
There are more than enough people in this country who would like to see this country and the ANC fail.

 

[Sinbad]

It would not surprise me in the least if it was true.
There are more than enough people in this country who would like to see this country and the ANC fail.

Lol you think the anc needs help to fail?

 

[Nanfeishen]

Lol you think the anc needs help to fail?

When mismanagement and political appointees have become the norm in such a large enterprise, deliberate sabotage can be far easier to hide in amongst everything else.
The aforementioned mismanagement thus becomes the scapegoat while any deliberate acts are dismissed.

 

[j4ck455]

“What we pay for is often definitely not what we receive in terms of specifications,” Oberholzer said.

That right there is the problem: clearly no one at eSkommel is checking the quality of coal/rocks delivered to power stations, or people that should be doing quality checks are being paid by the dodgy BEE suppliers to rubber stamp any old rubbish that they have loaded into a dump truck.

Before any truck dumps its load at a power station, there should be quality checks, and anything that does not meet the required specifications must be rejected with contractual consequences.

 

[jvrs]

Irrelevant, when you voted you knew, and agreed, you were voting for a party to run the government and you knew, and agreed, you were voting for the winning party to elect the president.

Aaag just please stop posting this drivel, trying to justify your poor choices.
Do you enjoy Loadshedding?
Do you get that warm and fuzzy feeling everytime the power goes out, knowing you had a hand in this mess?

 

[C4Cat]

Aaag just please stop posting this drivel, trying to justify your poor choices.
Do you enjoy Loadshedding?
Do you get that warm and fuzzy feeling everytime the power goes out, knowing you had a hand in this mess?

I've no idea what you're on about. All I was saying is that the COO of Eskom reported the sabotage to our president, he didn't just make it up. Then you guys all jump up and down about how he's not your president, how now I'm to blame for this mess, as if my vote was worth more than yours. **** off.

 

[gottagoon]

Lol you think the anc needs help to fail?

ANC is a failed liberation movement. Liberation movements CANNOT govern. They should of stuck with terrorism. Instead of getting involved with running a country.

ANC were useless terrorists. Our SADF annihilated them in the Eighties.
And the ANC is useless at running a country. As the last 25 years has shown.

So, let's see. What good has the ANC done done for this country?

Absolutely nothing. Most SOE's are reliant on bailouts now.

ESKOM from this:
Cripping debt: 2019
Today its debt levels of R430bn represent about 15% of the state’s total debt, debt from municipalities are growing by R1bn per month, and its wage bill has exploded from R9.5bn annually in 2007 to R29.5bn in 2018.
There has been a "significant loss of critical skills", with "poor quality of maintenance" and "poor workmanship" causing breakdowns, of which 40% is due to human error, according to Gordhan.
The company is suffering from "systemic corruption, malfeasance, fraud and state capture" that has "compromised the credibility of the organisation and eroded investor confidence", Gordhan added.
Eskom has a total installed electricity capacity of more than 45 000 MW.
On Tuesday, it could only generate capacity of 27 000 MW against a demand of 30 000 MW.

Original source here:

1922 - 2019: The rise and fall of Eskom | Business

The Department of Public Enterprises has warned that Eskom could cease to exist by April. Here's how it went from an award-winning power company to "technically insolvent".

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