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@tshishonga7 @koko_matshela @Eskom_SA Oh puhlease, you’re seriously going to bring in race into this? The current CEO is the only white CEO since 2000. What’s your point, really?

@koko_matshela People are just making money at @Eskom_SA with this load shedding and because black people ourselves make easer for minority to undermine us in every sphere of leadership .This must change in our country. In a corporative world black people don't want to be led by black fellow

This is one of the real energy experts around. His CV speaks for itself. If there is a man who deserves to be the Chairman of Eskom it is this man here.

@MGILIJACCC @Julius_S_Malema @CyrilRamaphosa Word vomit = no sense nonsense.

@Julius_S_Malema If is was an African black person's child the "media" and their headlines would read "Pravin Gordhan's daughter" is looting the state coffers. But because he is minority the "media" and @CyrilRamaphosa loves him.

Meet Anusha Gordhan, the daughter of #PravinGordhan. From only 11 ministerial responses we can confirm that she got tenders worth more than 80 million after her father was appointed Minister of Finance. Let's make her famous because the media won't show her face.

@SizweLo @nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud Clearly the question I replied to. 🤦‍♂️

@jneedto @nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud Which question are you answering? Or you're just getting some stuff off your chest?

The French PM has just announced the nationalization of the main Electricity company, the giant EDF.

@SizweLo @nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud Eh maybe the fact that it is R400b in debt, that it can’t keep the lights on, that they’ve only built one completed power station since early 90’s, that they haven’t updated 60 year old infrastructure. You know, the obvious reasons.

@nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud My question is why is state ownership of Eskom "absolute failure" here?

@SizweLo @nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud Hahahahaha is that a serious question or are you being deliberately obtuse.

@nickhedley @Tshilidzi100 @GerardAraud Why is it "absolute failure" here?

Eskom, SAA, DENEL, Transnet, PRASA, SABC, South African Post Office, etc. Do ANC leaders sit back, by themselves in the NEC/NWC and say “comrades, we messed up, let us go and own up with South Africa”?

@Webbles10 @heinwelman @phoyana2311 @News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Nearly 30 years dude. Were you even alive then?

@heinwelman @phoyana2311 @News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Yes because they got the skill at the expense of blocks they must bring Cuban engineers again to piss you off a bit😂😂😂🤣🤣

Eskom has a skills deficit which is partly responsible for breakdowns in plants and equipment. CEO Andre de Ruyter plans to bring back old artisans and engineers as mentors. | @politicsblahbla @Fin24 news24.com/fin24/economy/…

@master_otu @phoyana2311 @News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Agreed, but if it’s about skin colour, why haven’t they ensured that in nearly 30 years there were black candidates?

@phoyana2311 @News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Sadly that is the case. But they are the ones at the moment, who have the most experience. It will take time to fill those gaps with black professionals. But right now, the priority is to get a stable grid, so that young black engineers and those graduating, will have a future

@phoyana2311 @News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Who cares what skin pigmentation the resin has as long as they know wtf they’re doing.

@News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 I'll bet you those old artisans and engineers are mostly if not all white.

@News24 @politicsblahbla @Fin24 Too little too late.

@Curtis_85M @Eskom_SA It’s both.

@Eskom_SA At first you told us that loadshedding is gonna be bad this year, when it got to the point where we needed electricity the most, loadshedding was implemented and y'all said it was due to the unprotected strike while we very that it was due to lack of maintenance

#EskomGauteng #MediaStatement High failure rate of mini-substations and transformers in Gauteng result in equipment shortages

@Eskom_SA experts have been telling you for 15 years that the aging equipment is not meant to be switched on and off ad infinitum...but your only solution over all these years has been LOADSHEDDING nothing else was considered or tried to prevent this. Don't cry now!!

@Eskom_SA Besides illegal connections vandalism etc mentioned in the notice the reality is the transformers and mini substations were never meant to be switched off and on as much as it gets done during loadshedding, that adds to the failure rate

@Eskom_SA Well duh. Did you honestly think the infrastructure is equipped to deal with these constant “on & off” routines?

@DallasMaloca @News24 @noksy_k @Fin24 They’ve all failed. The failure started when the ANC became the ruling party. It’s been going from bad to worse for years. You cannot supply the current demand with 60 year old infrastructure that was hardly maintained properly since the 90’s.

@News24 @noksy_k @Fin24 DeRuyter has failed at Eskom PERIOD. No amount of deflecting can shield him from his failures. He must just give up n go home

Eskom is struggling to keep the lights on in Gauteng as more than 180 mini-substations and 2 300 transformers have been damaged, and it is battling to find replacement parts. | @Fin24 news24.com/fin24/economy/…

@Kugadzirisanyi1 @SAfmnews Really? They’re paying? And yes we pay.

@SAfmnews Those countries are paying for that electricity and most of u don't ,u owe Eskom

The DA has raised questions about how Eskom, is continuing to supply electricity to neighbouring countries when it is implementing Stage six rolling blackouts in South Africa. #SABCNews

@BDamasane @kmosebetsi @News24 @Fin24 They aren’t solely to blame, but they are part of the problem, and then they destroyed what little we had left in this country with their illegal strike.

@kmosebetsi @News24 @Fin24 But who are the buyers kahle kahle, becoz blaming the workers sounds too cliche' or anecdotal. First they said it's sabotage now there's a Wage Settlement it's said they're selling the spares or parts???

@News24 @Fin24 The infrastructure was not designed to be put “on and off” at this rate and with these intervals. So this simply compounds the problem of old stations that haven’t been maintained properly through 3 decades.