Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has been trashed as incompetent by some and hailed as a hero by others. The battle lines align with political allegiance with the DA strongly in support of De Ruyter and the ANC against. The division is very often on racial lines too.
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_Business He did very well when one opens ones eyes and understands his back was to a wall with meddling and criminal anc. No one can fix 28 years of pure destruction and be attacked at every turn. Dont lay blame on Andre and his team blame anc.
_Business New brooms always sweep clean... Until they don't. I can't wait to see the new minister fail to deliver on his so called promises.
_Business You proberly find it hard to objectively asses him... One character that your Media house never posses.... Such a Shame.. You created an invisble Hero out of Clay...
_Business Story for the Gods! Corrupt government owned entity used and still is for personal enrichment.
_Business He achieved ZERO
_Business Forget objectivity, it'll never hold against populism and propoganda.
_Business You would almost say that permanent stage 6 loadshedding would be about as objective as it gets to determine whether the Eskom CEO was both incompetent and a failure.
_Business Can we just close this chapter and move on This man put us through hell, and it will take a very long time for most people to recover.
_Business 'praises'?
_Business de Ruyter was the worst
_Business He should be charged criminally
_Business It’s history learn from it move on! Navel gazing on the issues isn’t going to fix anything. Act in what is know n fill in the gaps and implement implement. It’s been two months what has actually been done who has been disciplined arrested prosecuted.
_Business By 'more objectivly' do you mean can we dig deeper under the bottom of the barrel to find some tiny, tiny thing he actually accomplished? Then no.
_Business Why are you even talking about him, the messenger, and not focusing on the problem. South Africa is an international laughing stock.
_Business Praised for loadshedding Prince of darkness Failed dismally pushing weak propaganda everything your boy touches turns into ashes he will go down as the WORST CEO in history
_Business He faces vilification you say? Who in their right state of mind praises failure. We must be having a lot of clowns in South Africa.
_Business You would do anything to discredit AdR, bear in mind he single handedly had to deal with cartels, sub standard materials and must allow thugs to eat. Not even the best magician would've pulled it off..
CoruscaKhaya _Business Mr stage 8 himself. This guy broke the record of stages of loadshedding
_Business Maybe start by explaining what a CEO is.
_Business Praise from who? Ay this is beyond absurd,lol the same man who put us through stage 6 load shedding is receiving praise 🤣🤣🤣 ay fuck whiteness really is a thing!
_Business The only thing he has going for him is media PR to sanitize his incompetence.
_Business The worst CEO in the history of Eskom without a doubt. All KPIs in the negative.
_Business Well, suddenly there are no performance contracts and kpis and measures…mncm
_Business There is and it’s very simple …. WE STILL HAVE LOAD SHEDDING… so he failed to deliver.
_Business He was bad, worst CEO to ever grace eskom
_Business The man was wholly incompetent
CoruscaKhaya _Business Objectively its very easy. He did not achieve any of the KPI’s he set for himself. We have the worst loadshedding ever. Seeing that a whole (behind a paywall) article up has to be written to determine this, it is very unlikely to be remotely objectively.
_Business A failure of note.
_Business Objectively, the guy was kak and the worst CEO in the history of Eskom
_Business De Ruyter sabotaged Eskom
_Business He was never 'good' at sasol or at Nampak and he definitely wasn't good at Eskom. A career failure that was ushered in to destroy what was left of Eskom for his renewables lobby bosses.
_Business He was the worst CEO his track record speak for itself from Sasol to Nampak and Eskom
ManyovuG _Business A CEO whose intentions were to divide Eskom into smaller pieces? Your homework should be finding out how horrible he truly was.
_Business He tried but the thieving corrupt ANC/Government was always in his way and stealing everything they could get their hands on….
_Business Please send your decision so I can use it for court in a week 😂😂😂😂
_Business So now you want to do a performance appraisal on a CEO who was told to allow ppl to eat 😂 by stealing and providing poor service and low quality materials? Why dont you do a P.A on our politicians?
_Business Lays out the arguments well if De Ruiter was the most suitable person for the Eskom CEO position. Also talks about National Treasury tardiness. However when new board done their own interviews found AdR was not close to the technical side of the business. politicsblahbla
_Business That man destroyed Eskom, try and defend all you want
_Business De Ruyter was good, very good, he delivered on his mandate,he successfully introduced stage 6 and he was contemplating to introduce stage 15, very few could do what he did.
_Business Andre is a distraction from this
_Business He most grossly incompetent ESKOM CEO ever. I am not going to roll him a red carpet because he's white. He's the worst of the worst. He's the best only to whites,u know them mos,as long as it's white,it good,no matter how useless it is 😂😂😂😂
_Business De Ruyter was a mess and disaster finish and klaar
_Business Simple.. did he stabilise the power grid? Do we now have less loadshedding & other power outages that before he started? Has the maintanence catchup programme been successful? Are we seeing less breakdowns? ... sadly answer is no to everything. He fixed nothing.
_Business Eskom is a stolen treasure of this nation,it can never be repurposed back to its original form,regardless of what energy supply formula they use,The rot of eskom is irreparable,No individual must be credited or vilified, that won't bring normality,Government has limited choices.
_Business If you doubt what he did was excellent than I know now at last with final proof you are indeed the mouthpiece of the anc
_Business even the best in the world will look no good..eskom is a rotten apple to the core caused by all the corruption and mismanagement pre his days..was he brave to enter the pit of snakes.yes..did he get bitten..yes will anybody be good at eskom...no
_Business If failure was a person ,it would be Andre he destroyed eskom the same way he did nampak ,and here you are defending him ,yet you demonized Mr koko and molefe for ending loadshedding and making eskom profitable
_Business The moment he left stage 7 loadshedding stopped, why are we even going there are you going to do the same for every Eskom CEO , or what about government itself
_Business What can't be denied, is that he exposed, again, how utterly criminal the ANC-regime is.
_Business The only person who was any good at bending an SOE to his will, was JZ.
_Business It's quite obvious he did badly. All you tryna do is show how bad he did so that people don't take him seriously on the issues he exposed coz they prove CR is no different to JZ