Eskom seems to have a strange idea about what a performance bonus is and why it actually gets paid. It secretly wants to spend R1,8 BILLION on performance bonuses for the current and following 2 years, even as we face phase 4-6 loadshedding at the moment and it seems like daily rolling blackouts will be with us for quite some time.
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#TheAfricanWay – SA Faces Extended #RollingBlackouts Due to Collapsing Infrastructure Yet Eskom Secretly Wants To Pay R1,8 BILLION (R88,000 per employee) in Performance Bonuses!
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New Eskom CEO faces huge challenges, first task is to unbundle the state entity
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Andre de Ruyter started his duties as Chief Executive Officer of Eskom six days earlier by visiting each of the power plants individually to familiarize himself with the circumstances of each of them. The new Eskom boss has an enormous task upon his hands, with the first task assigned to him, to unbundle Eskom into..
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Eskom engineer not entitled to promotion because he is white, no wonder the power utility is in such a mess
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A white engineer at Eskom is being assisted by Solidarity trade union after he applied 2 times for posts at the power station where he currently works – posts for which he was the best candidate – but was told that the posts can’t go to him because he is a white male. Eskom’s initial..
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Cabinet wants De Ruyter to take over from Eskom sooner – They have never sought a white man so quickly. It should be pretty rotten at Eskom
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De Ruyter, currently CEO of the packaging company Nampak, would be appointed Eskom CEO on January 15, 2020. The final cabinet meeting of 2019 instructed Public Enterprise Minister Pravin Gordhan to negotiate with André de Ruyter to take over the reins at Eskom earlier. Presidency Minister Jackson Mthembu addressed reporters on Tuesday about the December..
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NO SABOTAGE AT ESKOM – POWER GRID IN SA FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE
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Now the truth comes out, and it is not what Ramaphosa told you . Ramaphosa told the country this past Wednesday that sabotage was the reason for phase 6 loadshedding and it happened when an unspecified instrument was disconnected from one of the boilers at the Tutuka power station and that this led to the..
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#Rollingblackouts – To prevent further damages Eskom announce Phase 2 load shedding for Friday
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South Africans will have to prepare for more power outages this weekend after Eskom announces that Phase 2 load shedding will take effect from 09:00 to 23:00 Friday. According to their latest statement, the bankrupt state entity says their system is still vulnerable. Although the power grid units are recovering as scheduled, they also lost..
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Load shedding due to poor workmanship at failed Medupi power plant, though Ramphosa points finger at sabotage
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The Phase 4 load shedding forced on South Africa this past week is attributed to poor workmanship with the erection of the Medupi power plant, which was initially highly praised by the ANC government. The power plant has caused so many problems in the past week that the Eskom management had to take the load..
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Cyril rushes back to Eskom and cuts visit to Egypt short amidst electricity crisis which holds serious economic consequences for SA
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Opposition parties expressed their dismay when the ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, went to Egypt amidst #rollingblackouts occurred all over South-Africa this past week. He had to cut his less important visit to short and returned to South Africa to talk to the heads of Eskom about the crisis load shedding has on the finances of..
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Dumb Twit!! SA will overcome load shedding like apartheid, says Ramaphosa
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the energy crisis currently faced by the country will soon come to an end. South Africans have expressed frustration, as Eskom battles to keep the lights on with stage 4 load shedding currently in place and was expected to last until 11pm. Ramaphosa, speaking in Sharpeville on Thursday in his Human..
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What a disgrace! Table Mountain Cableway: Visitors get stuck amid #Rollingblackouts
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The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company said power surges may have caused the failure of its generator. The impact of load shedding is being felt across the country, as Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) on Monday confirmed that visitors got stuck on top of the mountain. In a statement on Monday evening, TMACC said:..
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#Rollingblackouts – Total darkness creeps closer after Eskom applied Phase 6 load shedding
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South Africa is getting closer to the risk of a total nationwide power shutdown after Eskom applied Phase 6 load on Monday evening at 6pm, shutting down a region’s power for about 9 hours a day. This is due to additional technical problems occurring at the Medupi power station at Lephalale in Limpopo. Phase 6..
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Medupi still not complete after 12 years – It is a wonder that they haven’t blamed old Jan yet!
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Eskom says the Medupi power station’s Phase 2 stage is in operation, making it part of the power supply’s overall electricity output. The announcement comes 12 years after the first donation was made to set up Medupi, but during that time, South Africa paid much more for the erection than initially budgeted. In addition to..
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Medupi with erection costs of R234 billion is still not functioning optimally due to poor construction and inexperienced workers
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President Cyril Ramaphosa makes an official visit to the Medupi power plant in the Northern Transvaal, which, after years of construction, still does not function properly. The ANC president apparently wants to do “inspection” at the poorly constructed power plant that fails to supply its supposed capacity. The visit comes as the whole of Eskom..
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Eskom to cut 60% of Soweto households’ power supply – Seems like #blackprivilege don’t apply in black residential areas at the expense of honest payers
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Eskom has awakened from its 25 years of corruption and has now suddenly decided to cut off Soweto’s illegal electricity consumers’ supply. According to the latest report, Eskom has indicated that it will disconnect power from at least 60% of the 200,000 Soweto households with prepaid meters. The reason is, according to Eskom, due to..
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ANC piggy bank is empty – ANC regime owes municipalities R165 billion
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After a thorough investigation, it was found that the treasury of South Africa’s is indeed empty for a long time. It has been discovered that the state’s owes amount municipalities approximately R165 billion. To make matters worse, it must be taken into account that the amount is valid for up to the end of June..
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