The guy got family and he chose his family and safety and his life.....I don't blame him for resigning ....imagine. U go to work wearing a bilullet proof
Earing a bulletprof,riskigmy family and my life,but worse been criticized for trying to do the impossible ,l would resign too,all those big mouths dont have a clue what its like to tiptoe your whole life
When you said he did the "impossible"...what is this "impossible do" that he did? As far as I can still remeber we had load shedding right through his tenure...DUH!
@@mahlahlanaDon’t be a troll. AdR did his best, but it was ANC incompetence, corruption, cadre deployment, backstabbing and all that other nonsense, which caused an impossible atmosphere for him to work within. Soon there won’t be electricity for you to charge your phone or laptop and then nobody will have to read your foolish comments anymore.
@@ollievw3450 answer this simple question…what has the guy done to improve the situation we are in. I am not absolving the ANC of any thing…Eskom is the way it is because of them. By the way they “deployed” de Ryter into that position 😏. de Ryter did not turn around Eskom that’s a fact. He’s as useless as the ANC people how appointed him.
@@mahlahlanalet’s not discuss in circles here. He wasn’t given the opportunity to improve the situation. The real question is: ‘what are people like you and me going to do to make sure the anc pounds sand in 2024.’ And then help whoever is ‘in charge’ to get meritocracy back in SA.
People have sent videos of kilometers and kilometers of trucks carrying our coal to Botswana and Mozambique and heading to Richards Bay en route to China 😡
With respect to Ted Blom - Is the lack of Engineering and Utility background really the issue? I think the challenges related to CORRUPTION is the biggest issue. The theft of money at all levels in ESKOM is the blocker of the maintenance of existing power stations, and the expansion of power generating capacity.
I'm NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS. EVERYONE HAS THE ANSWER BUT NO-ONE TOOK UP THE JOB AND NOW HE'S GETTING CRUCIFIED WHILE LOOTING iS STILL HOING ON IN ESKOM. AND NOW WE ARE REALLY DOWN THE PRECIPOUS. ONS IS NOU RERIG IN ONS MOER.
You are right we are here due to corruption! But turning around a distressed organisation generally needs individuals who are well grounded in the organisation's operations (i.e. core-activities of the organization); and in this case, certainly any electrical engineer with excellent engineering practice & management record.
I was procurement manager at a subsidiary of Eskom responsible for repairing the Eskom fleet and I can tell you corruption, lazyness, lack of knowledge, interference of unions and yes my life was also threatened. I worked 15 to 18 hours a day and a person stand alone against anarchy.
This was the price Rama had to pay to get free from Phala Phala. Now the crime syndicate can loot without having people try to stop them. Eskom is finished it's been cannibalized from the inside.
By doing what? This guy was given 100% political support and he failed. Government may have interfered in eskom before but this time ai ul have to explain what government did since de ruyter took charge to justify ur statement.
@@bridges5659 lol a corruption laden anc still gets the same amount of votes than all the other parties combined and looking at the last election when anc losses vote share so does the da. If you really believe in a coalition type of result the eff would give the da the presidency ur high giving the da local councils and state power is the name so keep dreaming about steenhuisen as president but please do wake up.
@@destinedforgreatnessinshallah Was not his competence that is in question here. He wanted to get rid of ALL the unnecessary spending taking place and get the best skills in. But ANC stopped him at every corner.
@@kazykamakaze131 get rid of unnecessary spending? Do you have a clue how many billion worth diesel Eskom burns a month now compared to before his tenure. My argument is purely based on facts not emotion. Please Google that one fact.
And its not only old machines, look at the work ethics of the agv South African employee, people getting appointed based on everything except skills, corruption at ground level ect. We have a moral crises.
@@South34degrees And Medupi running at only 1 unit currently. ANC can't build ANYTHING. Could have bought 2 pre fabricated nuclear power stations from France for the price of Medupi.
When he accepted the job he said he would fix the problem ,, he was not appointed to Try to fix the problem . Therefore he is a Total failure !!! The person who appointed him should also resign
One did not sound like an expert. The moment he mentioned Germany I knew he was lost, the whole world knows why Germany temporarily went back to coal. Sound like sour grapes about something to me.
@@jacquesdelange3816 - How much money you want to bet that the move isn't temporary? It would make more sense to get an alternative supply of gas rather than fire up mothballed coal power stations.
Firstly both thses gents never mentioned the methods countries such as Thailand handled its power shortage. Thailand simply allowed the private sector to provide generation and the state only contrlled the main lines and so forth. I think Eskom needs to be broken and each province given a mandate to manage their own requirements accordingly. With a central controling body manging the cost of purchasing the electricity to ensure that it never exceeds the our countries Growth Domestic Product.
Germany is only 1/3 in territorial size compared to South Africa and has multiple electricity supplying utilities, some of them private, others public / governmental. Most of them have a focus on a specific region, where they are the major supplier. The state has a monopoly on the main power grid, but the market for electricity production and supply is liberalised. The end user can choose between dozens of energy suppliers and different tariffs and it works just fine.
Couldn't agree more!! The public need to have transparency in the effort, the private sector the right to contribute and responsibility need to broken down in manageable sectors i.e municipal sectors
Then the ANC and City Power criminal staff will starve. Criminals - the whole lot. The ANC taught them well. They don't WANT a working system because they won't be able to loot.
If I were him I would leave today. Let the BBBEEE lazy looters and their ANC gang figure it out. There's no way I would give these worthless criminals one more hour of my presence.
At this point I don’t care about their beans. All I want is a constant supply of electricity. Thereafter we’ll be able to watch want went on television.
Some nations will never stood by their own nations ...I think everybody can hear that ... Andre de Ruyter tried his best...thank you Prof Mark for standing up for Mr De Ruyter
I frankly do not believe that you have to be an engineer to lead eskom there are hundreds of companies with CEOs that aren’t disciplined in their industry. The problems at Eskom are political frankly the government is the problem
Although Ted Blom makes some good points, his arguments about De Ruyter are targeted and flawed (and seemingly personal). He ignores that the issues with Eskom are, in fact, systemic based on decades of neglect, corruption, incompetence and negative political influence. Dr. Swilling is spot on with his points. De Ruyter took on captaining a sinking ship from the start. He was not sufficiently supported by government and was always going to be marked as the “fall guy”. De Ruyter’s resignation will be catastrophic for South Africa as he was the last capable executive to fix ANC’s decades of destruction with our bankrupt parastatals… Eskom being the most important one for our economy. His effectiveness was unfortunately always dependent on government’s unequivocal support and that was never going to happen given decades of evidence. The failed state of South Africa (i.e. ANC’s communism) vividly reminds me of the book “Animal Farm”.
"Finally" is the most disgusting media label put on Mr de Ruyter's excellent service possible. Tarnishing his good work retrospectively is disgraceful. Let's see who will solve this chaos which started under Zuma better.
He did not, spend money to fix the problem, he focussed on paying debt, worse CEO by far! and by the way during most of Zuma Tenure we had no loadshedding
This should never ever be a 12 minute debate. The host says "We are running out of time" running out of time for what???? This literally is the most important issue South Africa has faced in 28 years. It not only affects every person in South Africa, but also affects the overall net income of South Africa...DRASTICALLY. Further putting us more and more into an unobtainable debt. Not to mention the youth who are now hindered from to get a proper education etc, Leaving the future of South Africa without the needed tools to prosper. If you are going to do a piece on such an important topic like this ( important as in the immediate future of our country ) then you need to get a panel together and discuss this over several hours. Where independent experts can scrutinise each answer, and call bullshit where it stands.
@@fedixafrika5874 No, generation must be privatized. Distribution can be run by the municipalities/Government. This why you still have some control on pricing but have the efficiency of privatized generation. Currently it's not distribution that is the issue but the lack of generation. Eskom has in anyways exponentially made electricity more expensive even though we have much lower labor cost than the western world.
1: We HAVE to PRIVATISE (which will have AGAIN but lesser Govt/Political oversee ) We only do Crisis management now 2 : No Communist allowed. 3: No bailing out and selling to Socialist brothers around our borders. BEE abandoned-you can't run a Construction Coy Politically.
OMG SOMEONE JUST FIX OUR COUNTRY PLEASE WE BEG why is it so hard for them and why must so many people suffer because our government is so greedy? can everybody just open their eyes because this is so painful
I love the way they blame the boss De Ryter.... The "workers" at Eskom do net mooi Bogger all. Even Municipalities have 10 workers digging a trench.... Only 1 digs and the other 10 sit watching. Then they swop every 10 minutes.... Because of the ANC, South Africans don't like to work. Fire the whole bloody lot.... I blame everyone at Eskom from the top, to the employees.
If the units only need maintenance why was the report of the 90 recommended decommissioning of some of the old units? Was the maintenance done properly before Deryter took over? Corruption and criminality has how much impact on the current situation?
I do have a lot of respect for Ted Blom's opinions and the fact that has a wealth of technical knowledge behind him, but in this case, I think the Professor is in fact more correct in his overall assessment.
The WHOLE SA crisis started with ZUMA. NOTHING get maintained. Theft and corruption in many area of SA. Eskom is not the only infrastructure that is in trouble. They all are.
Not easy to fix what "don't" care have messed up..we need to pray more for our country and for wisdom for people who are willing to fix what others have messed up
Tell Ted Blom to go and be Eskom's CEO. His mouth is pretty big. No-one will know what actually to expect until a person is physically there and see what condition the company is in.
Eskom: De Ruyter is (was) a CEO, not an engineer, cable joiner, auditor or investigator of malfeasance. A general manager who needs make sure that he has the QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED AND CAPABLE, in key positions. It calls for delegation and trust! The business and function of a CEO is to co-ordinate the aspects of all parties in the particular business, to make sure that the planned performance of the organisation is met and achieved. So to ensure the organisation is economically viable. [Besides all the 28 years of corruption, lack of maintenance, skulduggery, corruption (28 years) of Eskom (other SOEs "thanks" to ANC), one needs to factor in sabotage, scam (world wide for power (pun) and control) and the sinister.]
Correct. What good is a CEO in a system that's rotten from top to bottom?? Delegation works in a system that still has some integrity at least. My suggestion.. making harsh organisational changes top-down. Watchdogs covering the level below each of them and in this way rooting out the rot. And that's where leadership comes into play that knows what's going on.
Dude, he stated a decade ago we need more generation. He even suggested LONG ago we can build/rent more nuclear to solve our current maintenance issues. You lack logic, period.
Confirmed: Political interference 101 ! ...go well Mr de Ruyter...you unfortunately did not fit their 'BEE CODE" ...They 'pushed' you Mr de Ruyter ...the political correct thing to do ...*the struggle will never end !
More disaster. So what do we do now when does it all stop . The municipal does not stop taxing us switching off our lights till now cant even afford our buss anymore so what to do????
@@truth-Hurts375 These experts voice differing views in the media often unchallenged on air, we all know the common issues, tired of everyone thinking they know it all and have all the answers and solutions, if they feel they have the answers it should be challenged through constructive debate. Those that have had educated constructive debates will know how invaluable these are. And yes I do get it that debate is a waste of time if you have a government thats the problem. Debate can be a form of education and I've learned some things from this short debate. I'm still on the side of sustainable green energy long term but do need the right energy mix in the short term and medium term. Lots of factors impacting eskom.
@@bridges5659 Guess the uneducated will always feel they have all the answers and the educated that they can dictate to others. Debate of the minds is slowly dying, so is freedom of speech, cancel culture grows. I know everything and yet I know nothing.
Ted Blom... This man sounds more like a politician than an expert. He blindly quotes "facts" that are clearly a few steps above his limited level of comprehension.
You misunderstand. Ted Blom is a highly experienced man when it comes to Energy. He has suggested the type of maintenance that should be executed but nobody at Eskom is listening because they still have a passion for corruption and are still embroiled in it. The man is forced to talk like a politician, a rather good one because of the negative political interference and corruption that is retarding any progress at Eskom.
I agree. There are facts in the public domain (locally and internationally) he he blindly ignores. He sounded like a politician, strings a few populist words together for those who do not want to think for themselves.
You state above his comprehension, yet he is the ONLY person on the panel that has electrical generation experience. You lack logic and common sense. Give facts to counter rather than slander without facts, this is the peak of cognitive dissonance.
I am so fedup of listening to Ted Blom's years of criticism of every aspect of escom, he is just a narcasist liking to hear his voice on tv and radio and if he was such a expert why doesnt he do something about it?
Libraterianism is the only way forward in SA. The government won't fix anything. We should group and work together to cut the ANC fat out, regardless of race.
Ted Blom, you forget eskom is not using A grade coal, this A grade coal is exported, hence those old units overseas work effectively. In SA eskom is feeding substandard coal, hence inefficiency.
The maintenance at Eskom is a key problem, with lowered standards due to, inter alia, corruption, BEE, Cadre deployment, poor quality appointments over many years, non payment for power epidemic that exists in the RSA all contributing to the steady decline of the once world class Eskom. Only an appropriate change in government from the current ANC will perhaps save Eskom and our lovely country!!!
@@bryanbroekman6008 the reality is 3 years ago the CEO defunded power station maintenance plan and pursued some pie in the sky green technology..this has worsen the problem to stage 6. As for the majority of SA population this country was never "lovely " before ANC, as racist Eskom was only servicing 30 percent of the population...the rest of us grew up on paraffin stoves...it is not lovely now with the ANC as well...thanks to the racists government for giving us ANC , BEE and all the nonsense black people never had before they came into this country...
Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, all shining examples of places with almost no mlungus... UK... Europe... Plenty of mlungus and a whole lot of migrants from Africa who think maybe it's ok after all, to live where mlungus run things.
Funny how when Mlungu ran the country ALL the state facilities worked? When Bantu came into government all fell apart. Another shining africa example of how greedy and useless the Bantu are. Watch when SA falls and already has ran to the Mlungui for help, as always...Bantu = Can't even run a donkey cart.
We won't see the end of loadsheding unfortunately this is our new normal..we must just accept that ..money is available but no leadership to take sauth africans to the next level..or changes since 2015 sauth africa struggling with power and electricity..this country is finished and this is not a joke 😑 😐 😒 😢
Until the ANC stop regarding Eskom as their personal piggy bank, and until the ANC stop interfering with the management, Eskom will continue on it's downward spiral.
The guy got family and he chose his family and safety and his life.....I don't blame him for resigning ....imagine. U go to work wearing a bilullet proof
That is a made up story
Earing a bulletprof,riskigmy family and my life,but worse been criticized for trying to do the impossible ,l would resign too,all those big mouths dont have a clue what its like to tiptoe your whole life
@@truthfulman9044 Nope. Too true.
The guy is not a leadership material, he couldn't manage a tissue company yet expect him to run an entity like Eskom
He knew what he was getting into. He was a puppet unfortunately.
He exposed all the corruption on the supply chain. DID THE IMPOSSIBLE. FIRST CEO to do that !!!
O please he was given his script..amd succesfully put of ur lights...
we need a new government....
DA
@@cleonasteyn7178 Why do we need politicians in the first place?
@@cleonasteyn7178 lol uhm no
@@louie-vincentoffice5553 Why? Who do you suggest?
Mr De Rhyter we admire and THANKYOU for trying to do the impossible. Anc is determined to destroy eskom and the country
When you said he did the "impossible"...what is this "impossible do" that he did? As far as I can still remeber we had load shedding right through his tenure...DUH!
@@mahlahlanaDon’t be a troll. AdR did his best, but it was ANC incompetence, corruption, cadre deployment, backstabbing and all that other nonsense, which caused an impossible atmosphere for him to work within. Soon there won’t be electricity for you to charge your phone or laptop and then nobody will have to read your foolish comments anymore.
@@ollievw3450 answer this simple question…what has the guy done to improve the situation we are in. I am not absolving the ANC of any thing…Eskom is the way it is because of them. By the way they “deployed” de Ryter into that position 😏.
de Ryter did not turn around Eskom that’s a fact. He’s as useless as the ANC people how appointed him.
@@mahlahlanalet’s not discuss in circles here. He wasn’t given the opportunity to improve the situation. The real question is: ‘what are people like you and me going to do to make sure the anc pounds sand in 2024.’ And then help whoever is ‘in charge’ to get meritocracy back in SA.
@@ollievw3450 my only problem with your analysis is the excuses you make for the guy…but other than that I agree with you!
Thanks for engaging 🤝🏽
The corruption at Eskom is unprecedented and it will continue with impunity. Things will get worse.
A
Molefe. Koko. Gupta's. Zuma. ANC. THIS is why ESKOM is like this.
@@meisieradebe9521 it’s not Eskom , it’s the ANC.
It's now bigger than just Eskom...think Cyril, Patrice Motsepe's AREP, Jeff Radebe...
People have sent videos of kilometers and kilometers of trucks carrying our coal to Botswana and Mozambique and heading to Richards Bay en route to China 😡
With respect to Ted Blom - Is the lack of Engineering and Utility background really the issue?
I think the challenges related to CORRUPTION is the biggest issue. The theft of money at all levels in ESKOM is the blocker of the maintenance of existing power stations, and the expansion of power generating capacity.
I'm NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS. EVERYONE HAS THE ANSWER BUT NO-ONE TOOK UP THE JOB AND NOW HE'S GETTING CRUCIFIED WHILE LOOTING iS STILL HOING ON IN ESKOM. AND NOW WE ARE REALLY DOWN THE PRECIPOUS. ONS IS NOU RERIG IN ONS MOER.
You are right we are here due to corruption! But turning around a distressed organisation generally needs individuals who are well grounded in the organisation's operations (i.e. core-activities of the organization); and in this case, certainly any electrical engineer with excellent engineering practice & management record.
I was procurement manager at a subsidiary of Eskom responsible for repairing the Eskom fleet and I can tell you corruption, lazyness, lack of knowledge, interference of unions and yes my life was also threatened. I worked 15 to 18 hours a day and a person stand alone against anarchy.
Ted is opinionated and not up to standard
Corruption by ANC, labor union and organize crime
No matter who is appointed ...we will not move forward as long as politicians poke their noses in eishkom
Eishkom. Good one. 😂👍
Not to forgetting the fingers
This was the price Rama had to pay to get free from Phala Phala. Now the crime syndicate can loot without having people try to stop them. Eskom is finished it's been cannibalized from the inside.
Gwede Mantashe along with other ANC Ministers responsible for the load shedding and failure of Eskom.
By doing what? This guy was given 100% political support and he failed.
Government may have interfered in eskom before but this time ai ul have to explain what government did since de ruyter took charge to justify ur statement.
Anc can't do anything right. We are going back in time before Jan van Riebeeck came,no toilets no jobs etc.
ANC is FINNISSHED.
@@bridges5659 yes in only 28 years.
@@bridges5659 lol a corruption laden anc still gets the same amount of votes than all the other parties combined and looking at the last election when anc losses vote share so does the da.
If you really believe in a coalition type of result the eff would give the da the presidency ur high giving the da local councils and state power is the name so keep dreaming about steenhuisen as president but please do wake up.
Don't blame him he took over when eskom was already up to shit
Sinking
And with no loadshedding
Then he should have said the situation was beyond his competence.
@@destinedforgreatnessinshallah Was not his competence that is in question here. He wanted to get rid of ALL the unnecessary spending taking place and get the best skills in. But ANC stopped him at every corner.
@@kazykamakaze131 get rid of unnecessary spending? Do you have a clue how many billion worth diesel Eskom burns a month now compared to before his tenure. My argument is purely based on facts not emotion. Please Google that one fact.
And its not only old machines, look at the work ethics of the agv South African employee, people getting appointed based on everything except skills, corruption at ground level ect. We have a moral crises.
Old machines, new machines. Lack of maintenance will destroy them all. Look at Kusile
@@South34degrees and common morality, if you work alot with Eskom field techs, you will see why Eskom has no money
@@South34degrees And Medupi running at only 1 unit currently. ANC can't build ANYTHING. Could have bought 2 pre fabricated nuclear power stations from France for the price of Medupi.
I tip my hat to De Ruyter for at least trying to fix Eskom
When he accepted the job he said he would fix the problem ,, he was not appointed to Try to fix the problem . Therefore he is a Total failure !!! The person who appointed him should also resign
Everything got worse cause of him nd he did it on purpose, I hope the new ceo is not a white man.
Like how he fixed Nampak.
Trying he failed flat out
the cancer is too deep - Ted couldn't change anything either.
The ministers & president have electricity 24/7, why should they care about the rest of us. Is'nt this typical of the ANC?
If the 'experts' disagree then how does the public ever have a chance
One did not sound like an expert. The moment he mentioned Germany I knew he was lost, the whole world knows why Germany temporarily went back to coal. Sound like sour grapes about something to me.
@@jacquesdelange3816 - How much money you want to bet that the move isn't temporary? It would make more sense to get an alternative supply of gas rather than fire up mothballed coal power stations.
At least the experts know what they are talking about...you only know what you see on Facebook
Firstly both thses gents never mentioned the methods countries such as Thailand handled its power shortage. Thailand simply allowed the private sector to provide generation and the state only contrlled the main lines and so forth. I think Eskom needs to be broken and each province given a mandate to manage their own requirements accordingly. With a central controling body manging the cost of purchasing the electricity to ensure that it never exceeds the our countries Growth Domestic Product.
this is genuis and could totally work.if the provinces dont do their part they dont have krag haha
Germany is only 1/3 in territorial size compared to South Africa and has multiple electricity supplying utilities, some of them private, others public / governmental. Most of them have a focus on a specific region, where they are the major supplier. The state has a monopoly on the main power grid, but the market for electricity production and supply is liberalised. The end user can choose between dozens of energy suppliers and different tariffs and it works just fine.
Good plan, so then I will emigrate to the Western Cape, coz I'm sure they will get it right.
Couldn't agree more!! The public need to have transparency in the effort, the private sector the right to contribute and responsibility need to broken down in manageable sectors i.e municipal sectors
Then the ANC and City Power criminal staff will starve. Criminals - the whole lot. The ANC taught them well. They don't WANT a working system because they won't be able to loot.
He was FORCED to resign. Who can work with people that are so corrupt and criminal.
Anc will appoint another man with a hat, watch this space !!!
I hope that in March 2023 he will spill the beans and tell us what is really going on.. now he is silenced.
He is too decent to do that and would be sued.
If I were him I would leave today. Let the BBBEEE lazy looters and their ANC gang figure it out. There's no way I would give these worthless criminals one more hour of my presence.
@@kateturner1849 I agree. I always ask myself why did he even take this job in the first place🤔 these people have no plan and are very ungrateful
At this point I don’t care about their beans. All I want is a constant supply of electricity. Thereafter we’ll be able to watch want went on television.
You cannot blame one man, the amount of corruption runs very deep. Forget about eskom and get your own energy.
Don't want to make everyone mad bye what I add to the mix
My 2x battery systems are working well
Some nations will never stood by their own nations ...I think everybody can hear that ... Andre de Ruyter tried his best...thank you Prof Mark for standing up for Mr De Ruyter
I frankly do not believe that you have to be an engineer to lead eskom there are hundreds of companies with CEOs that aren’t disciplined in their industry. The problems at Eskom are political frankly the government is the problem
True....
If Ted Bloom knows so much, why does he not take the job of CEO at Eskom !!
We'd REALLY be in the kak then. The man is 200 years behind the times!
I second the suggestion
I am wondering this myself, he always on TV, contradicting all the former CEO‘s. Maybe he should send his CV to Pravin.
Yes
Exactly! His ideas are outdated and irrelevant in the modern times. Time for him to retire.
I feel that Andre DeRuyter had his hands tied.Politicians interfered
The Professor understands the challenges Mr. de Ruyter has faced.
The Prof has no clue what he's talking about. Ted Blom warned us against De Ruyter's incompetence since day one.
@Edit Name an idiotic comment by you.
Gwede Mantashe's comments was inappropriate! Horrible horrible horrible!
Wow!! We are really in a huge mess!! 😣😣😣
You must be some sort of an Einstein to figure this one out.
Agree a new government please please please.
Now, the ANC looters can get back to hollowing out Eskom again for their own pocket!
Although Ted Blom makes some good points, his arguments about De Ruyter are targeted and flawed (and seemingly personal). He ignores that the issues with Eskom are, in fact, systemic based on decades of neglect, corruption, incompetence and negative political influence.
Dr. Swilling is spot on with his points. De Ruyter took on captaining a sinking ship from the start. He was not sufficiently supported by government and was always going to be marked as the “fall guy”. De Ruyter’s resignation will be catastrophic for South Africa as he was the last capable executive to fix ANC’s decades of destruction with our bankrupt parastatals… Eskom being the most important one for our economy. His effectiveness was unfortunately always dependent on government’s unequivocal support and that was never going to happen given decades of evidence.
The failed state of South Africa (i.e. ANC’s communism) vividly reminds me of the book “Animal Farm”.
Ted Blom. Why don’t you step up to the plate and run as Eskom CEO ?
ANC won't let him. Too much money to make stealing from the citizens.
Because he's all bek and no balls. 👎 Easy to chase a photo op but knows nothing.
"Finally" is the most disgusting media label put on Mr de Ruyter's excellent service possible. Tarnishing his good work retrospectively is disgraceful. Let's see who will solve this chaos which started under Zuma better.
Loadsheding started 2007..
He did not, spend money to fix the problem, he focussed on paying debt, worse CEO by far! and by the way during most of Zuma Tenure we had no loadshedding
@@jamludentertainment de ruyter actually spent the most of any ceo in the past 15 years on maintenance
This should never ever be a 12 minute debate. The host says "We are running out of time" running out of time for what???? This literally is the most important issue South Africa has faced in 28 years.
It not only affects every person in South Africa, but also affects the overall net income of South Africa...DRASTICALLY.
Further putting us more and more into an unobtainable debt.
Not to mention the youth who are now hindered from to get a proper education etc, Leaving the future of South Africa without the needed tools to prosper.
If you are going to do a piece on such an important topic like this ( important as in the immediate future of our country ) then you need to get a panel together and discuss this over several hours. Where independent experts can scrutinise each answer, and call bullshit where it stands.
💯 exactly, and Ted Blom should be excluded from that discussion. This is more of a social problem than a practical problem.
We need to privatise Escom. The only way foreward.
That's ANC's agenda, are you their member or their agent?
No. It must be nationalized
@@fedixafrika5874 No, generation must be privatized. Distribution can be run by the municipalities/Government. This why you still have some control on pricing but have the efficiency of privatized generation. Currently it's not distribution that is the issue but the lack of generation. Eskom has in anyways exponentially made electricity more expensive even though we have much lower labor cost than the western world.
@@kazykamakaze131 How would privatizing help?
SAA.
The fact that he was poisoned with cyanide the day AFTER he resigned , says a lot....what did he know, and about WHO??
The energy minister is a waste of time get rid of him as soon as possible.
1: We HAVE to PRIVATISE (which will have AGAIN but lesser Govt/Political oversee ) We only do Crisis management now 2 : No Communist allowed. 3: No bailing out and selling to Socialist brothers around our borders. BEE abandoned-you can't run a Construction Coy Politically.
Now things will become worse. But I admirethe few who still try hard to get the country out of the mess, which it is in.
Truth of the matter is that we f#$%&d, this deeper than we want to believe
OMG SOMEONE JUST FIX OUR COUNTRY PLEASE WE BEG
why is it so hard for them and why must so many people suffer because our government is so greedy?
can everybody just open their eyes because this is so painful
Sadly, Gwede is out to lunch.
With his taxpayer expense credit card.
Too much Polical interference is the cause that Eskom is worse than before. Andre got the job with no essential tools..
I love the way they blame the boss De Ryter.... The "workers" at Eskom do net mooi Bogger all. Even Municipalities have 10 workers digging a trench.... Only 1 digs and the other 10 sit watching. Then they swop every 10 minutes.... Because of the ANC, South Africans don't like to work. Fire the whole bloody lot.... I blame everyone at Eskom from the top, to the employees.
Strange that an educated person can see that de Ruyter tried his utmost. Ted Blom should get a life
He's a failure !!
The problem is not Mr de Ruiter the problem is the ANC neither Kuzile nor Medupi work properly.
If the units only need maintenance why was the report of the 90 recommended decommissioning of some of the old units? Was the maintenance done properly before Deryter took over? Corruption and criminality has how much impact on the current situation?
yes, yes it does
Exactly. 👍
Agree with Prof Swilling...
I do have a lot of respect for Ted Blom's opinions and the fact that has a wealth of technical knowledge behind him, but in this case, I think the Professor is in fact more correct in his overall assessment.
Ted Blom should back up his talk and fix Eskom. He always just gripes from the sidelines.
The WHOLE SA crisis started with ZUMA. NOTHING get maintained. Theft and corruption in many area of SA. Eskom is not the only infrastructure that is in trouble. They all are.
He is not allowed by ANC to do so. Have you forgot that ANC control the treasury?
No anc no loadshedding
My friend we want to listen to the history of the failed Eskom since in the hands of the ANC government whom is ensuring that the poor becomes poorer
Gotta love Ted Blom! Love your brut honesty. Thank you Sir!
Not easy to fix what "don't" care have messed up..we need to pray more for our country and for wisdom for people who are willing to fix what others have messed up
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” George Orwell
Well said Prof Mark Swilling
I agree with the prof... we need a team ....
Tell Ted Blom to go and be Eskom's CEO. His mouth is pretty big. No-one will know what actually to expect until a person is physically there and see what condition the company is in.
Mutiny from workers and unions is the cause of this mess.
He never had the change to proof who he realy was ...and we all know corruption was the problem
People like Blom as criticising why cant he apply for the position and see if he turn the Eskom around
Do we have a president?
He is hiding so they dont blame him
@@Scott0909-j7m No, do blame him. He was in charge of eskom during his VP tenure with zuma.
I think he resigned because he and is family was threatened because this man know what he talking about
This is an awesome channel and bongani you rock...
It was so f..up when he took over
How can you fix a company that is bankrupt!
The reason de ruiter was taken out is to allow the corruption to continue from mantashi to the transporters of the coal
look on the bright side. Soon there won't be any more load shedding.
That is because there won't be anymore load to shed
Corruption ..cuts deep. What a disaster 💥
Team work is definitely needed but Some South Africans can't Stop being Toxic
Eskom: De Ruyter is (was) a CEO, not an engineer, cable joiner, auditor or investigator of malfeasance. A general manager who needs make sure that he has the QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED AND CAPABLE, in key positions. It calls for delegation and trust! The business and function of a CEO is to co-ordinate the aspects of all parties in the particular business, to make sure that the planned performance of the organisation is met and achieved. So to ensure the organisation is economically viable. [Besides all the 28 years of corruption, lack of maintenance, skulduggery, corruption (28 years) of Eskom (other SOEs "thanks" to ANC), one needs to factor in sabotage, scam (world wide for power (pun) and control) and the sinister.]
Correct. What good is a CEO in a system that's rotten from top to bottom?? Delegation works in a system that still has some integrity at least. My suggestion.. making harsh organisational changes top-down. Watchdogs covering the level below each of them and in this way rooting out the rot. And that's where leadership comes into play that knows what's going on.
Good points from PROF
I suggest the Germans should take over South Africa: loadshedding will end by noon tomorrow.
Why are we then exporting our coal to the EU!! Who's PICKETS are being lined, and our coal operators being shut down eg Komat !!
I agree with the Prof 👍🏼
Ted Blom is way of the mark, if we have what he says then we would not be in this situation, period.
Dude, he stated a decade ago we need more generation. He even suggested LONG ago we can build/rent more nuclear to solve our current maintenance issues. You lack logic, period.
Ted is clearly looking for an ANC job. What an ass!
This is down to ANC. THE END
Confirmed: Political interference 101 ! ...go well Mr de Ruyter...you unfortunately did not fit their 'BEE CODE" ...They 'pushed' you Mr de Ruyter ...the political correct thing to do ...*the struggle will never end !
More disaster. So what do we do now when does it all stop . The municipal does not stop taxing us switching off our lights till now cant even afford our buss anymore so what to do????
Please please can we have more of these debates.
Nee, mnr. GrootBaas. Grootaarse. 😂
Why ????
@@truth-Hurts375 These experts voice differing views in the media often unchallenged on air, we all know the common issues, tired of everyone thinking they know it all and have all the answers and solutions, if they feel they have the answers it should be challenged through constructive debate. Those that have had educated constructive debates will know how invaluable these are. And yes I do get it that debate is a waste of time if you have a government thats the problem. Debate can be a form of education and I've learned some things from this short debate. I'm still on the side of sustainable green energy long term but do need the right energy mix in the short term and medium term. Lots of factors impacting eskom.
@@bridges5659 Guess the uneducated will always feel they have all the answers and the educated that they can dictate to others. Debate of the minds is slowly dying, so is freedom of speech, cancel culture grows. I know everything and yet I know nothing.
@@grootbaas9104 I hear you. 👍👍👍👍
All Gwede s fault and how the ANC never supported him
This is utterly nonsense SA needs to diversify energy sector ....we have everything we need in this country our problem is leadership 📌
Ted Blom... This man sounds more like a politician than an expert. He blindly quotes "facts" that are clearly a few steps above his limited level of comprehension.
You misunderstand. Ted Blom is a highly experienced man when it comes to Energy. He has suggested the type of maintenance that should be executed but nobody at Eskom is listening because they still have a passion for corruption and are still embroiled in it. The man is forced to talk like a politician, a rather good one because of the negative political interference and corruption that is retarding any progress at Eskom.
Ted Blom is a dinosaur.
@@Blade56762 Your arse.
I agree. There are facts in the public domain (locally and internationally) he he blindly ignores. He sounded like a politician, strings a few populist words together for those who do not want to think for themselves.
You state above his comprehension, yet he is the ONLY person on the panel that has electrical generation experience. You lack logic and common sense. Give facts to counter rather than slander without facts, this is the peak of cognitive dissonance.
I am so fedup of listening to Ted Blom's years of criticism of every aspect of escom, he is just a narcasist liking to hear his voice on tv and radio and if he was such a expert why doesnt he do something about it?
All talk no action
omg this 702 debates are super duper!
And here I sit in the dark watching this via a newly installed inverter ..... geez Louise!!!
Libraterianism is the only way forward in SA. The government won't fix anything. We should group and work together to cut the ANC fat out, regardless of race.
@@kazykamakaze131 ♡
Ted Blom, you forget eskom is not using A grade coal, this A grade coal is exported, hence those old units overseas work effectively. In SA eskom is feeding substandard coal, hence inefficiency.
Dankie tog vir Prof versus Bom
Just a question. Is the new CEO the same guy that gave himself an increase when he became part of the panel.
he took a 20% pay cut what are you on about😂
After De Ruyter resignation, who's next. At least we have electricity under De Ruyter watch. Next CEO we will have no electricity .
Are you serious...we never had stage 6 loadshedding electricity before...
The maintenance at Eskom is a key problem, with lowered standards due to, inter alia, corruption, BEE, Cadre deployment, poor quality appointments over many years, non payment for power epidemic that exists in the RSA all contributing to the steady decline of the once world class Eskom. Only an appropriate change in government from the current ANC will perhaps save Eskom and our lovely country!!!
@@bryanbroekman6008 the reality is 3 years ago the CEO defunded power station maintenance plan and pursued some pie in the sky green technology..this has worsen the problem to stage 6. As for the majority of SA population this country was never "lovely " before ANC, as racist Eskom was only servicing 30 percent of the population...the rest of us grew up on paraffin stoves...it is not lovely now with the ANC as well...thanks to the racists government for giving us ANC , BEE and all the nonsense black people never had before they came into this country...
Maybe Ted Blom should have applied for the job ,it is clear that does not know his backside from his frontside
Where is the ZUMA ACCOUNTABILTY during the STATE CAPTURE
Gas to replace diesel, why is it so hard to make that step ? The gas fields are all assessed along our coast !
Get rid off all the Mlungu's in the SA workforce and see what happens...
Probably the same as what happened in Angola and Zimbabwe.
Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, all shining examples of places with almost no mlungus... UK... Europe... Plenty of mlungus and a whole lot of migrants from Africa who think maybe it's ok after all, to live where mlungus run things.
Funny how when Mlungu ran the country ALL the state facilities worked? When Bantu came into government all fell apart. Another shining africa example of how greedy and useless the Bantu are. Watch when SA falls and already has ran to the Mlungui for help, as always...Bantu = Can't even run a donkey cart.
@@Blade56762 Well Asia is doing well without Mlungu ,the sun still shine and moon rise without any problems.
We won't see the end of loadsheding unfortunately this is our new normal..we must just accept that ..money is available but no leadership to take sauth africans to the next level..or changes since 2015 sauth africa struggling with power and electricity..this country is finished and this is not a joke 😑 😐 😒 😢
De Ruyter did the right thing by resigning before everything goes south.
Until the ANC stop regarding Eskom as their personal piggy bank, and until the ANC stop interfering with the management, Eskom will continue on it's downward spiral.
Great interview 👍 👏 👌
Change the government or else expect the worse to come
..all part of the strategy to beach the good ship RSA!
Absolutely Rubbish from Swilling.
Eliminate the Eskom mafia first.