The state of affairs at Eskom is likely to deteriorate even faster with chief executive André de Ruyter's departure, with the board hoping for an engineer to take the helm of the power utility, according to experts.
De Ruyter was initially set to leave Eskom at the end of March, but late on Tuesday night, it was announced that he was out with immediate effect. This followed an explosive interview with e.tv's Annika Larsen, in which De Ruyter said a"senior politician" was involved in corruption at Eskom. He resigned in December last year but was persuaded to remain at the crumbling parastatal until 31 March.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
_Business Atleast now they're on their senses an engineer is needed not just small time engineer or they must make a team of engineers to sort out the mess they've done.
_Business In all this stuff happening at Eskom, I believe Koko and Molefe were just victims
_Business Yes we should be worried about at the same time we need to encourage People to stop voting for ANC this organisation Leaders know nothing then stilling
_Business Why coz the white boy did what?
_Business De ruyter did better job than the entire anc leadership.
_Business So why was SAA not headed by a pilot?
_Business Eskom couldn't get worse than Ass..le Ruyter
_Business Fotsek! And your de Ruyter
_Business And they have appointed a ‘bean counter’ in the interim. 🤔😉
_Business Cuban or Russian
_Business Well- now they put in his place the guy who signs off all corrupt spending practices in eskom. He controls all spending so in effect he had aided and abetted the R1 billion being stolen by anc cadres EVERY month.
_Business Andre should be arrested for high treason
_Business Here I thought you were going to say it will deteriorate as no one will be guarding the cookie jar the pilfers are salivating over? 👀
_Business The return of Maroga is imminent
_Business Experts in economic and propaganda
_Business They want an engineer, because he/she is not an accountant or a lawyer that will turn off the taps to their thievery.
_Business Why did the government not use the experts that built and run Eskom effectively during the Apatheid era? De Ruyter could easily have turned Eskom around with a proper work force and the backing of the government against corruption.
_Business Stop peddling fibs, Eskom is likely to recover faster following the departure of Andre. I challenge you to look at all performance metrics and compare to his predecessors and tell us we’re he did better…I will wait patiently for that article!
_Business What? No man, these 'experts' must be sick mentally coz what!
_Business Seriously...You think?🤔I somehow doubt that🤷🏽
_Business Faqing incompetent chief executive of DARKNESS
_Business An engineer would be useless. They need a Sherlock Holmes Ninja, to route out all the gangsters and anc looters ! MbalulaFikile
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_Business It's impossible to have anyone worse than De Ruyter
_Business Because De Ruyter was clearly doing a great job😁 You people have no shame!
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_Business If the ANC is not voted out with the next election, then there is no hope for the future of SA. We are literally be fcucked as citizens of this country no matter whether you black white colored green or pink. We all will be doomed.
_Business How the hell can you post something on Twitter and want us to subscribe?
_Business Lol he was possibly bottom 3 of all CEOs
_Business Why the hell do you like calling these little white boys experts?
_Business Focus on the CEO is not enough. Managers all the way down the hierarchy are implicated in the failure as the CEO is not an operational manager.
_Business Whoever takes over will be well advised to make their own coffee.
_Business I want Mcebisi Jonas as CE, lets see who topples him by offering brown envelopes under the table! LoadsheddingUpdate anc_live
_Business They want an engineer as he wont have the skills to detect or prevent corruption. Or make it his/her priority.
_Business 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
_Business No, we should be very worried about the ANC and what they have been allowed to do for way too long. The ANC deserves to burn in hell for what they have done. When apartheid ended there was an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past by providing a foundation for equality.
_Business I think we can safely assume that whoever is appointed will be an ANC cadre deployment trusted not to expose the ANC looting and corruption at Eskom
_Business Mmmh, this dirty game that the government is playing isn't good. They're shielding looting happening in Eskom, why do they want to see people suffering?
_Business All points to Sifiso Dabengwa returning, he’s Ramaphosa friend, business partner and trusted advisor. I don’t see him transforming n dealing with Eskom crisis bt will at least get all the support (either to mask corruption or allow comrades to eat quietly) to bring back the light
_Business Just like how we have a cake for the police minister
_Business My question is Are the seven outside countries receiving electricity from eskom also in loadshedding stages as well, or is only South Africa?
_Business An engineer will not stop the looting. The engineer might find out about a problem if it is discussed with him. The new wonderman will need eyes like a spider and arms like an octopus. But he will be skinned alive and the zuptas will get even richer.
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_Business What a bunch of ignorant racist comments mad. Eskom is run by corrupt mafia government
_Business Well this eskom charts on loadshedding ,maintenance and revenue sings a different tune to what this meth induced expert is implying, even a person without proper energy generation knowledge will see and understand how Andre destroyed eskom just like he did nampak
_Business Eskom is the worst state because of this guy! What all these media they hype up whites and make them seem competent. Eskom will improve significantly if the chair of the board take over
_Business Dr Fahrie Hassan told us in an investigation that BlackRock bought Eskom holdings. So Eskom is now in pvt hands. Just like BlackRock is a Naspers shareholder hence we get the news they want us to see incompetent De Ruyter as a Saint & Molefe as bad. They use media 2 divide SA
_Business The Escom titanic has broken to two now it will sink faster
_Business Some media houses should be taken to task and banned. So you're all praising mediocrity for as long as it's a white one, just like the owners of the media houses?
_Business Incompetent De Ruyter
_Business His track record does not agree.mans useless😶😶😑🙄 Never mind the politicians who appointed him. But he was a geen energy peddling none performer. Just because he made some interview about what everyone already knows does NOT make him a hero.🤣🤣😂 Hes still a zero.
_Business They are going to f&ck it up like they do everything else!
_Business Nobody in their right mind would take on the job and be held to ransom by Gwede, Pravin or the board.... Or their criminal cartels.
_Business Did they feel the same way when he left Nampak?