Ntate Lehohla, always call a spade, a spade. And I agree with him completely.. And its pity, a ruling party never saw it fit to appoint him in government after his tenure at stats SA....
In the Tembisa hospital R850m went out within 3 weeks during coving leading to a death of the whistle blower. Btw the CEO of the hospital was a doctor yet millions went under his nose.
Experienced engineers and technicians throughout the structure at Eskom are in short supply. This is part of the problem and the main problem is that most of the infrastructure was not upgraded properly or at all. The Eskom board should have at least two experienced electrical infrastructure engineers in it's makeup. Jan Oberholzer is an engineer as COO but he requires more experienced back up.
Eskom is brimming with corrupt and inept individuals, stop protecting these people. Yes, there is a skills shortage, but it doesn't help when you are grossly over-staffed with incompetent employees that are costing the state a fortune...and that's not including the rampant sabotage. Lastly, we may have significant local funds stuck in pension funds, but handing this money over to a corrupt and incapable state would not constitute a responsible investment. This is not money the government should be allowed to touch. We desperately need a FDI favourable environment.
Pali Lehohla says that Eskom must be led by an engineer and de Ruyter must go. Lehohla does not get that #Eskom like most companies has a technical director. Eskom's technical director is most likely an engineer. A CEOs job is to give the technical director performance resources.
Problem, engineers are not mangers, the doctor should understand these business basics. I worked in private hospitals, good managers are not doctors. A good manager should be able to manage engineers. We are all armchair "experts" over complex matters.
You can be a good manager and also an engineer. What he is arguing is that when you don't have subject matter knowledge you will make poor decisions because you don't understand what is going
All engineers are taught management these days it’s compulsory. Most Germany CEOs have engineering as their first qualification that is why Germany is the most technologically advanced nation on earth.
@@12thpls management and technicals skills are two different sets of skills. Why do you think we have business digrees. The CEO will have senior engineers that will advice him/her on technical matters while he/she directs the company. That is most companies are run. Does Mercedes hire engineers as CEO??
@@ThamiNdlalane we are reaping the benefits of these business managers and social science majors as our leaders. They know how to talk and manage numbers but when it comes to technical skills they don't have the brains for it and we as consumers are suffering
Agree 100 %with you Dr.Bring in proper engineers not unskilled cader deployment engineers. Bring back the skilled people and stop avoiding qualified Engineers on the color of their skins.
Eskom is brimming with corrupt and inept individuals, stop protecting these people. Yes, there is a skills shortage, but it doesn't help when you are grossly over-staffed with incompetent employees that are costing the state a fortune...and that's not including the rampant sabotage. Lastly, we may have significant local funds stuck in pension funds, but handing this money over to a corrupt and incapable state would not constitute a responsible investment. This is not money the government should be allowed to touch. We desperately need a FDI favourable environment.
No, the IPPs didn't ruin Eskom. You're probably thinking of that decontextualized pair of facts that the IPPs sell electricity at 218c/kWh while Eskom sells it at 90c/kWh. On the surface that looks like Eskom is subsidizing the IPPs. But look deeper and they're actually not. The price Eskom sells electricity at is set by the regulator (NERSA), not by Eskom itself, and the price is calculated to ensure that, on the whole, the IPPs are revenue-neutral to Eskom. Basically, in the hypothetical case where the IPPs weren't around, Eskom would have to sell electricity at, say, 80c/kWh (again set by the regulator).
220% in agreement of this Prof and most of us wonders why are you not in the board of Eskom. Engineers are the most qualified experienced expects who can resolved this challenge at Eskom. If the politicians caders can just concentrate on politics and leave Eskom to qualified Engineers South Africa can be a better place.🤞🏾Prof. You really remind me about Busisiwe Mavuso speech when many cried fowl by the time she was calling a spate a spate at #SCOPA
Yes Old grumpy Lehohla speaks truth but him being so fixated on engineers or nothing else is my main point of rebutle. Debt in any company should be reduced to allow credit granting & financing in other aspects of the company. The eskom debt threatens the sovereignty of the country and it's a well judged decision that de ruyter focuses on debt mitigation. Skilled engineers are in shortage, but you can't take away from the various other disciplines that make up the functional areas of a business.
A leader is not a specialist, engineering or otherwise, but should be able to lead a multidisciplinary team of executives, including an executive of engineering.
Ntate Lehohla spoke nothing but the truth! this makes a lot of sense. StatsSA requires a Statistician...its a no brainer, so why is this not the case at Eskom?
True as long as we are still led by ANC government (incompetent and corrupt) ,all clever people will be like failures under leadership of ANC ministers and president
Except most of the engineers have left SA and are not coming back. If a drunk person crashes their car, the car is still broken when they sober up. Eskom will still be broken if there is a change of management. It takes over 10 years to build a new power station.
One of the problems in Eskom is that they are paying unskilled subcontract workers exorbitant wages... The government dont whant to retrench over staffed workers... And politic plays a big role... Here are engineers in our country but they are not black enough to fix the crisis at Eskom
Yes engineers will help but get politics out of Eskom first. Get the government out of Eskom. And we might see new baseload being build to save the industry of South Africa.
Yessss, Engineers for Water Works in the country and Electricity. People who have the technical know how already. This cadre appointments are crippling the country and the future of our children.
Proof that the africanisation process of Eskom and Mzansi is nearly done. Thank you Anc cadre deployment, Affirmative Action of people with substandard skills and BEE. The list of stunning failures is endless Denel, SAPS, SAA, Transnet, Gov healthcare and ESKOM. Verwoerd was actually right, we should have believed every word he said..... whatever those hands touch... will break.
oh god, another fool shooting his mouth off. Wants to bring back Koko.... why not bring back Zuma and the Guptas also while you at it? They did a sterling job last time
You sir should be in the board of eskom and recall Koko. Can these leaders get over their egos and bring back Koko. If he has done wrong, prosecute him while he sorts out the issues at Eskom. Kanti what is wrong with the thinking of these leaders. De ruyter is out of depth Stevie Wonder can see that.
There is an unsustainable low supply of skilled workers in South Africa, and the other workers that are there are products of BBBEE and our inferior education system. We need to attract skilled workers from abroad to help run everything here, as we have successfully alienated or scared off our ex-citizen skilled workers who have now left the country to help other countries with their infrastructure development.
Loads of corruption is the real problem. Cannot blame one Man. South Africa doesn't have a proper PPE. On top of this South Africa has had a massive population explosion and our energy supply cannon sustain supply and demand
You don't have to be a doctor to run a hospital, you don't have to be an engineer to run engineering driven corporate, you don't have to be a pilot to run airline....you must have a team of know how, experts, but you must be a visionary, know the objective and have management and leadership skills to drive a vision..is that simple...
Organisations are mostly specialised in a service. Eskom is on power production while airlines in the aviation and transportation industry. In each of these industries the devil lies in the details. Not just management, you cannot leave a power station in the hands of non-engineers (not saying non-engineers don’t have the capabilities to do so rather it’s not their field of expertise). You can non-engineers at the board but not have them lead the board.
Eureka! Why didn't this cross the government's mind yet its been staring at them all along? I like how logic is bypassed for years, then it's returned to when all else fails.🤣
@@mashiasurprise6879 then you are clueless about business. Government hospitals are failing because they hire doctors and make them CEO. Privately hospitals run smoothly because they hire people with management skills as hospitals managers. Tell me of private companies that hire technical people as managers?
@@ThamiNdlalane "Management skills" are not some magical ingredient that only polished, suit-wearing non-technical people possess and no engineers do. Of course if you appoint technical staff to leadership positions they, individually, have little aptitude for, the business will struggle. But the skills aren't mutually exclusive. You can get engineers and other technical staff who also have these magical "management skills".
@king quad s....What a stupid statement 🤣 The CEO's right hand man Jan Oberholtzer is one of the best qualified respected Engineers internationaly! Together they make a fantastic team! Most Engineers in senior positions also acquired MBA degrees.
@@ThamiNdlalane Hayi, uyabheda wena. Eskom is a Power Generation Entity, which is an engineering process. Consulting engineering firms are also managed by Engineers who rise through the ranks after spending years in their areas of expertise. You can't manage what you don't understand; especially in complex fields like engineering. Imagine Dam, Nuclear, Aeronautica,l Mechanical, etc. Engineers managed by someone who has no clue what they design, build, maintain or manage.
I dont agree with using people's pensions corrupt or not because should that deal fail it's at the expense of the employee who has invested his life in the business, having expertise does not say problems will not occur but solutions tending to the problem will be delt with more professionally and decisively, therefor loans can be paid and profits can be made and the working force thrives, I strongly disagree with using pensions but I agree to new adequate measures for management, it is time government looks into owning it resources, the private sector buys management and production of resources foriegn or domestic to produce results why must we sell and not use that particular procedure if we can't do it somebody can do it and train us and that does not mean sell or give, we are capable of learning and developing our own! Today comrades must be educated and adequate thats the revolution and we are wise enough to see through propaganda!
@@natesk3403 these people should look up Soichiro (hope I got his name right) Honda A brilliant engineer but it took a businessman to bring Honda to where it is today.
teachers must operate at schools, pilots must operate the planes, engineers must operate engineering sectors, drivers must drive,football players must play the football. Nurses are elected to lead engineering sectors , security guard elected to lead agriculture sector ,this is ridiculous guys
First off, instead of trying to go green, let us build a few more coal power stations. When production is up, employment is up and the economy is functional we can concentrate on green technology which to my mind is in it's infancy. Green tech is difficult to recycle and batteries also. The filtering tech for pollution is far more advanced and coal power stations will use it. No economy can grow Without electricity and we have the resources which is being shipped to China. We need smelting plants for iron, steel, copper.....all of which is being shipped to China. We are farming backwards.
This argument is futile. SA is great at looking at irrelevant solutions. ESKOM is to large to be managed by just engineers and can only work if they split management further. that is the board of director structure is to thin, every province should have its own management so that eskom cannot be so much monopolic. Leadership has to evolve because in the world we live in now, people know how to bypass systems. One leader is disastrous.
Question still not answered when is an engineer an enginee,r the first year he walks out of uni with papers no experience real world, or 40 years later with experience. we currently have engineers that currently have 25 years experience as engineers new generation., are you going to use south Africans engineers or Cuban, china or Russians.
Mr padi lekhohla is partly right we need engineers to run escom but our biggest problem that we are ignoring is the cattel that is running and fixing prices procuring coal with contracts that.100 year old .lets tackle the catels.first remove politicians the now ceo de rryter .then recall.our experts koko and his crew that are worldwide to run escom
Stop talking crap. The quality of the power station equipment was superior. And could with proper maintenance as was in the past last forever, well eventually new equipment is more efficient. But you know what I mean. In 1990 ESKOM was exporting power to our northern neighbours. Moth balled many stations that had become inefficient but still in perfect working order. And had a station in construction. No need to build 3 station urgently. Probably 1 in succession after commissioning a station. Every 5 years and mostly with this timeline because of growth in consumption. And yes, most of the board and executive needs to be engineers hopefully with some knowledge of finance and business management, committed to delivering and maintaining the high availability indexes ESKOM always did. It’s simple, don’t fix something that’s not broken. But no the ANC with no experience had to interfere in the operation, just like they did with SAA, post office, Denel, military, police municipalities, and you have the current state of the country. Problem is they don’t recognize the poor state of the SOE’s. They think its normal. And there supporter believe they are doing a great job.
Ntate Lehohla, always call a spade, a spade. And I agree with him completely..
And its pity, a ruling party never saw it fit to appoint him in government after his tenure at stats SA....
This gentleman has spoken so much sense here. Thank you for enlightening me with these facts
In the Tembisa hospital R850m went out within 3 weeks during coving leading to a death of the whistle blower. Btw the CEO of the hospital was a doctor yet millions went under his nose.
Even if they are white
I am so over load shedding race is the last things I'm bothered about. Just get someone qualified please.
Experienced engineers and technicians throughout the structure at Eskom are in short supply. This is part of the problem and the main problem is that most of the infrastructure was not upgraded properly or at all. The Eskom board should have at least two experienced electrical infrastructure engineers in it's makeup. Jan Oberholzer is an engineer as COO but he requires more experienced back up.
he has not said so.
Politicians need to stay away from the operations as well. they need to stop interfering
Don't touch the people's pensions, you will never return the money.
Let an engineer run it...he,s correct.....remove the fat cats.
Yes the Engineers and Experts know how to keep Escom running
Eskom is brimming with corrupt and inept individuals, stop protecting these people. Yes, there is a skills shortage, but it doesn't help when you are grossly over-staffed with incompetent employees that are costing the state a fortune...and that's not including the rampant sabotage. Lastly, we may have significant local funds stuck in pension funds, but handing this money over to a corrupt and incapable state would not constitute a responsible investment. This is not money the government should be allowed to touch. We desperately need a FDI favourable environment.
Pali Lehohla says that Eskom must be led by an engineer and de Ruyter must go. Lehohla does not get that #Eskom like most companies has a technical director. Eskom's technical director is most likely an engineer. A CEOs job is to give the technical director performance resources.
Problem, engineers are not mangers, the doctor should understand these business basics. I worked in private hospitals, good managers are not doctors. A good manager should be able to manage engineers. We are all armchair "experts" over complex matters.
You can be a good manager and also an engineer. What he is arguing is that when you don't have subject matter knowledge you will make poor decisions because you don't understand what is going
All engineers are taught management these days it’s compulsory. Most Germany CEOs have engineering as their first qualification that is why Germany is the most technologically advanced nation on earth.
@@kimjongun1777 Is this Germany or SA??
@@12thpls management and technicals skills are two different sets of skills. Why do you think we have business digrees. The CEO will have senior engineers that will advice him/her on technical matters while he/she directs the company. That is most companies are run. Does Mercedes hire engineers as CEO??
@@ThamiNdlalane we are reaping the benefits of these business managers and social science majors as our leaders. They know how to talk and manage numbers but when it comes to technical skills they don't have the brains for it and we as consumers are suffering
Agree 100 %with you Dr.Bring in proper engineers not unskilled cader deployment engineers. Bring back the skilled people and stop avoiding qualified Engineers on the color of their skins.
The best engineers can't fix eskom,because eskom is run by unions.
💯 THE MAFIA STATE
Politicians should have no say in engineering matters
Finally, somebody said it; engineering problems are in the details. More engineers in the management team and on the board.
Today common sense sounds like a noble and smart idea
How we got here is affirmative action and comrades deployment.
But Ju Ju black excellence
What would an "Enginer" know about corporate governance and feral corruption?
C O R R U P T I O N!!!!!!! Nothing will change
First time ever I hear a sober unbiased analyst on ENCA
I love the part where he says that the IPPs ruined Eskom
Hhayi who is being taken for a fool
Eskom is brimming with corrupt and inept individuals, stop protecting these people. Yes, there is a skills shortage, but it doesn't help when you are grossly over-staffed with incompetent employees that are costing the state a fortune...and that's not including the rampant sabotage. Lastly, we may have significant local funds stuck in pension funds, but handing this money over to a corrupt and incapable state would not constitute a responsible investment. This is not money the government should be allowed to touch. We desperately need a FDI favourable environment.
How
No, the IPPs didn't ruin Eskom. You're probably thinking of that decontextualized pair of facts that the IPPs sell electricity at 218c/kWh while Eskom sells it at 90c/kWh. On the surface that looks like Eskom is subsidizing the IPPs. But look deeper and they're actually not. The price Eskom sells electricity at is set by the regulator (NERSA), not by Eskom itself, and the price is calculated to ensure that, on the whole, the IPPs are revenue-neutral to Eskom. Basically, in the hypothetical case where the IPPs weren't around, Eskom would have to sell electricity at, say, 80c/kWh (again set by the regulator).
I just love him!
This man is right, you can not led engineering being not an engineer yourself. I am speaking as an engineer myself.
We have to get Pravin Gordhan out of government him and Cyril!!!,
VIVA ZUMA VIVA!!!
220% in agreement of this Prof and most of us wonders why are you not in the board of Eskom. Engineers are the most qualified experienced expects who can resolved this challenge at Eskom. If the politicians caders can just concentrate on politics and leave Eskom to qualified Engineers South Africa can be a better place.🤞🏾Prof. You really remind me about Busisiwe Mavuso speech when many cried fowl by the time she was calling a spate a spate at #SCOPA
Yes Old grumpy Lehohla speaks truth but him being so fixated on engineers or nothing else is my main point of rebutle. Debt in any company should be reduced to allow credit granting & financing in other aspects of the company. The eskom debt threatens the sovereignty of the country and it's a well judged decision that de ruyter focuses on debt mitigation. Skilled engineers are in shortage, but you can't take away from the various other disciplines that make up the functional areas of a business.
He is 100% correct
A leader is not a specialist, engineering or otherwise, but should be able to lead a multidisciplinary team of executives, including an executive of engineering.
Ntate Lehohla spoke nothing but the truth! this makes a lot of sense. StatsSA requires a Statistician...its a no brainer, so why is this not the case at Eskom?
Tell the truth prof, these people are afraid to be honest.
A leader who is an engineer would have made no difference, because their hands would have been tied behind their backs by government policy
True as long as we are still led by ANC government (incompetent and corrupt) ,all clever people will be like failures under leadership of ANC ministers and president
Except most of the engineers have left SA and are not coming back.
If a drunk person crashes their car, the car is still broken when they sober up. Eskom will still be broken if there is a change of management. It takes over 10 years to build a new power station.
IT USED TO BE LIKE THAT ! WHY, WHY DID THEY CHANGE THIS? ####
His analysis is always spot on. He does not mince his words. A true Pan Africanist. African Scholar. Very few are like him.
Let Engineers leading every Engineering discipline.
Saluut. 100% on the spot.
Give this man a bells he speaks the truth.
Maybe SAA would have survived if the president was a pilot :-)
I agree with you. What's happening in SA 🤦🤦
One of the problems in Eskom is that they are paying unskilled subcontract workers exorbitant wages...
The government dont whant to retrench over staffed workers...
And politic plays a big role...
Here are engineers in our country but they are not black enough to fix the crisis at Eskom
It will not make a difference because of the political interference, do you think they will give Engineers powers to make executive decisions
Please ,replace corrupted, unprofessional and lazy people from eskom and public sector 🙏🙏
a dangerous Man this is. Promoting nuclear-powered energy plants knowing South Africa has a competence problem.
Thank you Dr Pali for being truthful
We should start building power stations for the next hundred years,
Yes engineers will help but get politics out of Eskom first. Get the government out of Eskom. And we might see new baseload being build to save the industry of South Africa.
That's the honest truth if we want breakthrough.
Engineers cannot fix cadre deployment and Cyril paralysis.
Engeneer's are needed to lead but without privatisation of Eskom the revenue will be mismanaged.
Yessss, Engineers for Water Works in the country and Electricity. People who have the technical know how already. This cadre appointments are crippling the country and the future of our children.
Mxm this one must go back to Lesotho ,nxa masquerading as if he is a SAn.
Better than u
@@pulemota1754 o tseba ka ntatao le mmao,lerete!
Which is exactly what they have NOT done. Somebody else's time to eat...
We are where we are because of ANC government......continue voting ANC and adapt to load shedding.........period!!!!!
Proof that the africanisation process of Eskom and Mzansi is nearly done.
Thank you Anc cadre deployment, Affirmative Action of people with substandard skills and BEE.
The list of stunning failures is endless Denel, SAPS, SAA, Transnet, Gov healthcare and ESKOM.
Verwoerd was actually right, we should have believed every word he said..... whatever those hands touch... will break.
I think a good manager with good electrical engineers will do
Why borrow money from my own pension whereas i cant get a cent until i retire
Let them pay the world Bank first then the public will maybe trust them with their pensions
As we speak, our government is a high risk
We need engineers who will tell the truth...the system is old and about to shut down completely.. period
oh god, another fool shooting his mouth off. Wants to bring back Koko.... why not bring back Zuma and the Guptas also while you at it? They did a sterling job last time
We could say the same about the government...
Maybe we should get people in government that are qualified for the position 🤔
Lol engineers were not running it this whole time???? Wtf 😲
You sir should be in the board of eskom and recall Koko. Can these leaders get over their egos and bring back Koko. If he has done wrong, prosecute him while he sorts out the issues at Eskom. Kanti what is wrong with the thinking of these leaders. De ruyter is out of depth Stevie Wonder can see that.
Right things ANC do them wrong
There is an unsustainable low supply of skilled workers in South Africa, and the other workers that are there are products of BBBEE and our inferior education system.
We need to attract skilled workers from abroad to help run everything here, as we have successfully alienated or scared off our ex-citizen skilled workers who have now left the country to help other countries with their infrastructure development.
Loads of corruption is the real problem. Cannot blame one Man. South Africa doesn't have a proper PPE. On top of this South Africa has had a massive population explosion and our energy supply cannon sustain supply and demand
Vote DA & Action SA
I can understand y he left, must have been frustrating crunching those numbers and providing useful insights only for it to be discarded
Thank you Ntate. You are one of South Africa's finest sons
He Praises Pravin during Sars and Belittles Brian...Why can't His argument based more on the current Eskom CEO?
You don't have to be a doctor to run a hospital, you don't have to be an engineer to run engineering driven corporate, you don't have to be a pilot to run airline....you must have a team of know how, experts, but you must be a visionary, know the objective and have management and leadership skills to drive a vision..is that simple...
Organisations are mostly specialised in a service. Eskom is on power production while airlines in the aviation and transportation industry. In each of these industries the devil lies in the details. Not just management, you cannot leave a power station in the hands of non-engineers (not saying non-engineers don’t have the capabilities to do so rather it’s not their field of expertise). You can non-engineers at the board but not have them lead the board.
Eureka! Why didn't this cross the government's mind yet its been staring at them all along? I like how logic is bypassed for years, then it's returned to when all else fails.🤣
Do you think it is going to help maybe or not
I can't believe this CEO is not an engineer, chase him out of there, we need engineers to run an engineering firm
Do engineers have management skills? Is BMW run by skilled mechanics??
@@mashiasurprise6879 then you are clueless about business. Government hospitals are failing because they hire doctors and make them CEO. Privately hospitals run smoothly because they hire people with management skills as hospitals managers. Tell me of private companies that hire technical people as managers?
@@ThamiNdlalane "Management skills" are not some magical ingredient that only polished, suit-wearing non-technical people possess and no engineers do. Of course if you appoint technical staff to leadership positions they, individually, have little aptitude for, the business will struggle. But the skills aren't mutually exclusive. You can get engineers and other technical staff who also have these magical "management skills".
@king quad s....What a stupid statement 🤣 The CEO's right hand man Jan Oberholtzer is one of the best qualified respected Engineers internationaly! Together they make a fantastic team! Most Engineers in senior positions also acquired MBA degrees.
@@ThamiNdlalane Hayi, uyabheda wena.
Eskom is a Power Generation Entity, which is an engineering process. Consulting engineering firms are also managed by Engineers who rise through the ranks after spending years in their areas of expertise.
You can't manage what you don't understand; especially in complex fields like engineering.
Imagine Dam, Nuclear, Aeronautica,l Mechanical, etc. Engineers managed by someone who has no clue what they design, build, maintain or manage.
We are in trouble
Eskom was a fascist model you need multiple private providers of electricity
Free markets do not produce shortages
He he he unions wont allow this , south africas way
I dont agree with using people's pensions corrupt or not because should that deal fail it's at the expense of the employee who has invested his life in the business, having expertise does not say problems will not occur but solutions tending to the problem will be delt with more professionally and decisively, therefor loans can be paid and profits can be made and the working force thrives, I strongly disagree with using pensions but I agree to new adequate measures for management, it is time government looks into owning it resources, the private sector buys management and production of resources foriegn or domestic to produce results why must we sell and not use that particular procedure if we can't do it somebody can do it and train us and that does not mean sell or give, we are capable of learning and developing our own! Today comrades must be educated and adequate thats the revolution and we are wise enough to see through propaganda!
In the location we still on stage 6 mos n it's worrying bcs some of us are paying electricity like those in suburbs
Does our friend know what chancellor house is?
DA is protecting Pravin Gordan
Why this privatization nonsense from this unpatriotic enca
Engineers are not business people. They are inventors and by nature tinkerers.
That’s true. That’s why you have a board, managers should be there to advise while the engineer is innovating
@@natesk3403 these people should look up Soichiro (hope I got his name right) Honda A brilliant engineer but it took a businessman to bring Honda to where it is today.
teachers must operate at schools, pilots must operate the planes, engineers must operate engineering sectors, drivers must drive,football players must play the football.
Nurses are elected to lead engineering sectors , security guard elected to lead agriculture sector ,this is ridiculous guys
Pali 👏👏👏👏👏
Sjoe.......is broken.
What a sober minded intellectual! 👏🏿
First off, instead of trying to go green, let us build a few more coal power stations. When production is up, employment is up and the economy is functional we can concentrate on green technology which to my mind is in it's infancy. Green tech is difficult to recycle and batteries also. The filtering tech for pollution is far more advanced and coal power stations will use it. No economy can grow Without electricity and we have the resources which is being shipped to China. We need smelting plants for iron, steel, copper.....all of which is being shipped to China. We are farming backwards.
Such people should lead this government this man is exemplary leadership.
Clarity
Ntate Pali, salute. You have educated a lot of us.
This argument is futile. SA is great at looking at irrelevant solutions. ESKOM is to large to be managed by just engineers and can only work if they split management further. that is the board of director structure is to thin, every province should have its own management so that eskom cannot be so much monopolic. Leadership has to evolve because in the world we live in now, people know how to bypass systems. One leader is disastrous.
Question still not answered when is an engineer an enginee,r the first year he walks out of uni with papers no experience real world, or 40 years later with experience. we currently have engineers that currently have 25 years experience as engineers new generation., are you going to use south Africans engineers or Cuban, china or Russians.
Mr padi lekhohla is partly right we need engineers to run escom but our biggest problem that we are ignoring is the cattel that is running and fixing prices procuring coal with contracts that.100 year old .lets tackle the catels.first remove politicians the now ceo de rryter .then recall.our experts koko and his crew that are worldwide to run escom
Stop talking crap. The quality of the power station equipment was superior. And could with proper maintenance as was in the past last forever, well eventually new equipment is more efficient. But you know what I mean. In 1990 ESKOM was exporting power to our northern neighbours. Moth balled many stations that had become inefficient but still in perfect working order. And had a station in construction. No need to build 3 station urgently. Probably 1 in succession after commissioning a station. Every 5 years and mostly with this timeline because of growth in consumption. And yes, most of the board and executive needs to be engineers hopefully with some knowledge of finance and business management, committed to delivering and maintaining the high availability indexes ESKOM always did. It’s simple, don’t fix something that’s not broken. But no the ANC with no experience had to interfere in the operation, just like they did with SAA, post office, Denel, military, police municipalities, and you have the current state of the country. Problem is they don’t recognize the poor state of the SOE’s. They think its normal. And there supporter believe they are doing a great job.
Ntate Lehohla telling it like it is. We need to take ourselves seriously as a country. Matshela Koko is not the only Engineer in the country!
PALI FOR PRESIDENT
Totally agree with this guy but you can have a buisness man at the top if he got a proper engineer to have insight in the technical stuff
Remove that useless minister jamnandas godhan n then the board n executive n Phalaphala who is useless.