If you let experienced staff go because they are white and hire people because they are black even though they do not have the knowledge or experience, then silly (preventable) things like the Eskom fiasco is going to happen.
The FF+ presented Eskom with almost two thousand names of whites with the experience and skills that Eskom desperately needs. One wonders how far that exercise is progressing? Probably just going through the publicity stage until it fizzles out.
I can't see Eskom telling AA-recipient Sipho to bugger off because Frik will now be taking his place because unlike Sipho, Frik can actually do the job. Hau!
Reading the article below where the gubbermunt concedes that the maintenance of the infrastructure is also now “below standard” does not surprise me. Indeed I expect it.
Now a statement to the contrary would have me sitting up and demanding proof but nah...*yawn*, this is the ‘new’ South Africa. Nothing surprises me anymore.
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'Swift action needed to deal with energy backlog'
Electricity authorities attending the Electricity Distribution Maintenance summit in Midrand, have called for action to deal with a R25 billion maintenance backlog that could further stifle economic growth.
Chairperson of the SA Local Government Association (Salga), Amos Masondo, told the summit that restoring the integrity of distribution networks to an acceptable level seems to be a mammoth task.
Minerals and Energy Minister, Buyelwa Sonjica, told delegates that government invests nearly R2 billion annually into new electricity distribution infrastructure but little is injected into maintenance.
Meanwhile, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has conceded that maintenance of South Africa's electricity infrastructure is below standard. Mlambo-Ngcuka said the country had failed to step up its maintenance capacity.
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A friend of mine was working at ESKOM. He was the only one working on some prime projects. He wanted to do his MBA and checked if ESKOM would assist. They refused. So he applied and paid for his MBA at his own cost. When he requested a one days study leave to write an exam they refused. So he resigned. And now he is consulting to ESKOM on the projects he was employed to manage. I am sure you have heard stories like this a many times. But bad management is bad management. It does not matter if it is Black or White. My friend is not White, he is Black. But it won't fit your racist mind to believe such stories. Get over yourself, you do not luv SA you luv apartheid SA, which was not SA! I dare you to approve this, and then lets see who enjoys censorship.
@ anon 11:18..
YOU get over yourself.
If you even bothered to read some of the articles I have posted (which clearly you have not) you will see I have posted many, many articles written by blacks. Go on, check.
Get your facts right.
As for wanting the old SA, crap! I don't care who rules South Africa, as long as it is done properly.
It is YOU who is the racist. You cannot see anybody that criticises the ANC as being anything but racist. You are racist because you want a BLACK party in charge regardless of whether they are doing a good job or not.
Do me a favour moron, read my postings, see where I have advocated voting for other black parties like the UDM, ACDP or IFP and TELL ME how that translates into 'wanting the old SA'?
STOP TALKING SHIT! And get over that "oh woe is me" crap.
In the 80s, I worked on construction sites and paid my way through university to earn two degrees and the government paid NOTHING towards my studies.
Life is tough, deal with it. YOU blacks need to move from the black-white mentality. We whites votes 70% in favour of a majority government in 1992. Where's the thanks for that? What we whites got was affirmative action and BEE. That's is REVERSE RACISM - admit it!
You didn't like racism but have no trouble dishing it out, do you?
If a similar referendum was held today whether we would want the government disbanded and a government of national unity installed that encompasses all the races, what would blacks vote for? I know, definitely NOT 70% IN FAVOUR OF SHARING POWER.
So you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and get critical of the people (whatever colour they are) responsible for the crap SA is in and move forward.
There, your posting was approved. So much for the censoring.
Open your eyes, stop your bigotry and look at the facts in SA. We are in the crapper and unless you like being in the crapper then you and I have nothing further to talk about.
I am not happy being in the crapper so I will do everything I can to change things for the better. Happy now?!
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