The real reasons why Eskom is going down...
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2023
- In this video I discuss several reasons behing the collapse of South Africa's electricity generator, as brought to the fore by former Eskom CEO, André de Ruyter in his recent book, Truth to Power.
South Africa government, ANC, made BBB-EE an absolute must in SA, whereby they took competent people out of key positions and put their cadre's in positions that are not qualified to do.
A friend was such a oerson, made way & earned far more as a consultant.
The start of our problem is calling this "load shedding"... Anywhere else in the world this would be called "rolling blackouts".... The ANC invented the euphemistic term "load shedding".... Also, anywhere else in the world, the citizens would have brought the country to a halt, until the government resigned, after a few weeks of blackouts like we are suffering...
Our biggest problem as a country is our willingness to "make a plan" and to "just stay positive" This attitude, which has always served us well, are allowing for the ANC criminals to get away with anything and everything...
It's called brown outs in California 😂 seriously
@@vanessac1721 Political correctness has a new home...🤣
There are serious problems there and obviously rooted deeply in incompetence and corruption. However, the term "load shedding" was certainly not invented by the ANC, that is laughably ridiculous. It is a standard power system industry term worldwide since forever. Don't get emotionally side-tracked over semantics that are simply unfamiliar to you.
Well said my guy!
@@Macedonia270 ahh we laugh but you have Nooo Idea. Or you could either way Doesn't matter I guess that bollox will only reach our shores in 5/6 years. It's already here but we have it semi okay
My uncle is a senior manager in Eskom , he would rant about their issues when I was a kid , I'm 30 , everything he said came true. Eskom is their own enemy
And South Africa's
@georgenaidoo9553 what did he used to say? What does he say
“Strolling around in fancy suits and pointy shoes” 😂😂😂😂 you have described the black “management” to the tea. Don’t forget the luxury over the top cars
and the Black Label Johhny Walker whisky.
and the Louis Vuitton...
and the Louboutin shoes....
and the 17 Million Rand houses (Lottery cadre)....
and the R 126 000,00 restaurant bills....
That's the problem with the entire govt and municipalities, silk suits and shiny pointy shoes!!
Incompetence that is a understatement
The lack of 30 year vision , planning and alignment of the country towards those objectives is the real problem
Incompetence is also a type of sabotage.
@@RobertMurphy-sx8lc Especially in the way it is done by the cadres installed by the governing party.
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The ANC never had and never will have vision
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I am "privileged" enough to live in South Africa's worst municipality, Komani, formally known as Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 2 years living here I experienced numerous prolonged periods without any power including two very long stints. The first was 12 continuous days and the second was 6 continuous days. In both instances the problem was caused by a blown fuse that took a barely conscious technician about 4 minutes to fix. Both times it turned out that the delay was caused by not being able to locate the key that unlocks the fuse box. It took an accumulative 18 days for the combined efforts of Queenstown municipality's finest to accomplish the location of a key. Incompetence does not begin to describe the problem! PS. While preparing a standard no frills presentation concerning a public project I was involved with in Queenstown, I was told by the official screening the presentation before handing it to the Municipal Council for approval, to dumb the presentation down as it will fly over their heads and they wont be able to understand it in it's current form. I have come to expect problems like 18 days without power resulting from faulty fuses because literal idiots are in charge and with idiots in charge I cannot expect anything else.
I know it's shocking. This is what it's come to, how sad x
Its because you are all corrupt in that town. I have a lot of friends form there and all their families are in government positions and are openly corrupt and brag of how much they steal. poor black mentality making poor black problems
It's all deliberate and intentional. Every time they are out there, overtime is being recorded.
I've seen the same with my wife's work : a switch from one accounting system to s a p ( totally unnecessary but due to money seekers with the correct connections ) - this change now going on for 2 years with no end in sight. In the meantime the money is not being collected from the clients. Plus - new appointees are chosen from the very selected candidates allowed to attend the interviews - *no non blacks allowed!* ( Yes, there it is!!! ). My wife ( the most experienced candidate and classified as "black" by the law ) was not allowed to apply because she isn't *BLACK.* To put it into perspective - a completely unqualified *cashier* was allowed to have an interview for a managerial job. Talk about incompetence...
Holycrap
Load-shedding and Eskom will be a walk in the park compared to a total collapse of Rand Water. The collapse is imminent and cannot be rectified before the collapse. There are several sewerage treating plants dumping millions of liters of raw sewerage in the Vaal river, which Rand Water has to treat, purify. There is approximately 50% of the water that the treat, which is unaccounted for, lost underground in pipe leaks. Eskom's inability to supply Rand Water with constant electricity, exacerbates the problems. The cause is the same as in all the other SOEs like Eskom, SAA, Transnet, SAPO, SABC, etc. Some of the the words coming to my mind are, massive fraud, incompetence, lies, cadre employment, laziness, greed, arrogance, etc. May the people of South Africa get rid of this ANC and vote wise in 2024, for a better future in South Africa.
Hear hear!
How a corrupt government has managed to completely ruin what was once a magnificent country.
💯 agree
There is enough water but as you say total incompetence in getting it distributed. Well the ruling party were to busy EATING and ignored MAINTENANCE thereof
Watertanker mafia at work , long long nothing will b left of South Africa after the next election
, there won't even b a desert left ,carried away to Zim , Mozambique, even Lesotho will b stollen
Keep speaking truth to power Meneer. We need people like you.
ALL of South Africa's problems, including ESCOM, can be traced back to culture. And what is culture? The morels, values and examples we are taught from a young age at home and school. Fix this, at this grassroots level, and everything afterwards will come right
To right
Culture, in my opinion, is an issue, no doubt! But, I implore you to consider education as root; or the lack thereof...?
Backward Backwards.
Sorry but all the problems are caused by incompetent low IQ government ministers. They are only interested in corruption and looting.
@@xahvierduplooy8213 Sorry , some people cannot be educated, like 30 percenters . You can take the horse to the river but you cannot make it drink the water.
So, education is not a problem.
The ghost in the darkness at ESKOM.....The ANC!
Absolutely sickening. Its builds an anger in me which I cannot begin to describe.
The lack of performance management and holding ppl accountable for their actions is a major problem in our country.
It is a brilliant book which should be read by every South African. Andre was totally under estimated and judged for being competent.
It's so easy, to blame others, instead of blaming themselves in the government. They don't want to hear the truth, then you are wrong, and not them!!
This white man caused all the problems. It was fine till this boer arrived and wrecked the company
Its a shit book trying to play the victim. The bliksem destroyed eskom as ge did with Nampak
I introduced a course of Ethics to Dept Mine Engineering, Geology, and Survey at the University Of Zimbabwe , where I was Mentor to those Departments. It failed
It must be a horrible feeling seeing all your effort and knowledge you want to pass on is going to waste through the ignorance of logic!
Ethics and corruption are not friends
If you can solve South Africa's problems you can solve Africa's problems.
Way too late for that.
famine or someone that has the balls to press the red button
30 years ago there were Afrikaner voices warning us that this would happen. They were vilified by the exact same people now complaining about the system. Be careful what you wish for.
Voted 30 years ago for the National party? Then you are complicit
The same ones that looted the state before 1994 and ran up debts....cmon man.
Very true!!
Apart from dozens of other serious challenges, South Africa has a serious (wannabe) communist problem.
Got that here in UK too unfortunately. Obviously we haven't reached SA levels yet and hopefully never will but people here are farrrr too comfortable wanting the state to handle every aspect of their lives.
@@vanessac1721 full blown communism comes like a thief in the night. Please be vigilant.
@@vanessac1721 I honestly think if the UK and much else of the world stayed out of our business, our country would not have turned out this way. We know what is best for us, it is up to no other to decide it for us i say. Yet here we are, and now ironically those same countries that shat in our path water is succumbing to the same problem. It really highlights the arrogance and ignorance of many nations who think they know all just because their are more wealthy than others.
@Sterben-iw3yx I agree. It's the whole collection of WEF leader countries making rules that screw over countries like SA. It's all hypocrisy and it's grotesque. ANC can both be right and wrong depending on the topic. I read De Ruyters book, he was definitely singing from the WEF hymnbook regarding the green energy bollocks. He writes about how SA exports are penalised because they are made with "dirty electricity" sources as if if that wasn't completely unfair double standards by 1st world countries who grew rich off dirty electricity but rather says it like the SA government is too dumb to understand the the way the world works. I fully believe his accounts of corruption and cartels regarding Eskom but I don't believe he was the saviour he made himself out to be either, he had other masters. As you can see by the cushy professorship he's landed.
"not by voting it out but by building it out" - Ernst Roets 💯
Tell that to Vryheid municipality in the Freestate when they tried to build it out. Courts sided with goverment owned Eskom
..and then the R3 billion burning of diesel....‼️‼️
In 1994 Escom generated more than 55 GW per year whilst employing 17 000 workers. In 2019 Escom generated +- 35 GW per year and employed 44 000 workers. Do the maths as the 'mericans would say.
Damn. Corruption is an understatement, it's insidious and completely unchecked there. Wow.
It's taken more than double the amount of workers to produce less than previously, that's unbelievable!
Just shows you how far the standards and work ethics has dropped.
Sad, how far the country has gone backwards.
2000 - Eskom was awarded the best power utility in the world. 2008 - loadshedding was implemented for the first time.
Its a genetic ISSUE..one cannot run a COUNTRY with the mentally retarded below mean IQs
@hayderrosslee-ub3kd. Come on now friend!!! How can you blame all the "cuzzies", uncles, aunts, friends and "squeezas' that are "under utilized" in their posts, drawing HUGE salaries and perks? 😆😄😃
The problem is: You can't put a mouse in charge of a cheese factory.
This has made me laugh 😃
Baie dankie vir die kaalkop waarheid wat jy kwytraak Ernst Roets.Dit verg mannemoed.
As we always said : The very basis of all our problems , is our political party system. Our governmental and electoral systems need to move from populism to quality. To authoritarianism to servitude. No political parties allowed. Proper geographical representation. Non-partisan President. Don't wait 5 years to fire executives who do not perform, or who are obstructive.
You are spot on. Go and research Organic Humanity Movement (OHM) No political parties.
God gave us Africa and then he got angry and gave us ANC 😢😢😢
We were warned of the ANC before they took power, but nobody listened. I lay the blame on the older generations ignorance and spinelessness allowing this to come to pass when it was obvious to anyone who took a moment to step out from under the golden shower they believed to be the rainbow nation in the making that you do not place a primitive, inexperienced people in charge of an advanced economy. There were South Africans we spoke of this in the 1950s, and nobody listened but labeled them white supremacists when that wasnt the point.
So why did God become angry with us. I saw how many people were doing the braai and drinking while watching rugby world cup final, worshiping their idols. Hmmm, there you go. We betray God for a stupid game.
Very good analysis
As the SOE's go down so is the ANC Gov't. Goodbye ANC.
Clearly you have not paid attention to how it goes in the rest of Africa. If you want to see where SA is heading (heck, almost there), then look at any failed dictatorship/one party country in Africa throughout history.
The prospect of having no drinking water in Johannesburg concerns me more than the imminent collapse of our power grid which is a scary reality in itself...
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And it (water problems / shortages) are not far off. In Johannesburg 43% of water goes missing between delivery by Rand Water and what is sold to and paid for by consumers.
Suffering of SA is all self inflicted. ANC has undeveloped a developed country.
*regressed
Decolonisation in a literal sense? Reversion by regression
It's not that the Bantu are not concerned about the future, e.g. maintenance, replacement etc, but they have no concept of the future.
There's no future for the Bantus after failing to restore land to whites post 94'. I have bit met a single South African who voted for Bantus to steal half the continent! They have paid for nothing,nit even laid a brick! 200 years and they still cannot assymulate? Africa is free, that's what awaits then
bingo
Did the NP think of the future, their policy of apartheid crumbled after 30 years...
Way back in the late 1950's & early 60's I remember Eishkom Reps visiting my late farming father and offering free electricity installation with Distribution Board to a point mutually agreed upon. Also the cost of electricity per kilowatt was so attractive for irrigation etc it was a no brainer not to accept the offer!!! 🤔🤯
Effkom is a Balls up
Peter i worked for them you speak the truth
Corruption and incompetence are like Siamese twins. We desperately need a government of real vision and integrity. Hopefully more private power producers can come on board quickly and Eskom will go the same way as Telkom, becoming a peripheral service provider. Maybe Transnet and Water management need to go the same way.
You hit the nail on the head !!!!! Smart Man !!!!
Ineptocracy is the problem in SA and nobody seems to be able to drain the swamp permanently.
Eskom's demise is in fact, a mixture of sabotage by well-trained crime syndicates ( Andre de Ryter opened up a can of worms during his tenure as CEO but had no support from the government aka Pravin Gordhan, that gave him the position) as well as plain incompetence.
We tried it and built a plant in South Africa on Bio-gasification electricicity generation. NERSA and Eskom put everything and all in our way to stop us. I was the acting CEO of the company. My Operational Director is cuŕrently building plants all over the World.
There you go ...
Laziness and a total lack of accountability linked to their personal income
A good simple summary of everything that's wrong at Eskom & the ANC.
Absolutely correct.
Long story short. YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR.
Such true words, thank you Ernst
Great analysis. Thanks.
You forget that “management sabotage” is real and the most pervasive and most unrecognized of sabotage elements !
Therefore the political, cadre and parachuted appointees from no useful engineering disciplines are left to ruin the company with no consequence and no sanction !
Brilliant beyond words. Thanks Ernst. But, realize what you are saying: Democracy is finished! What is happening in SA, is happening almost everywhere. Most politicians are only concerned about re-election, left, right, and center. What underlies that? A lack of integrity and morality. That shows how secularism has killed our civilization.
So interesting. Thanks. Here in Canada many people especially in rural areas go off the grid using solar and natural gas from sewerage. In New Zealand saw a household getting power from a stream turbine peltier wheel and a scrapped washing machine motor.
Excellent, thank you
Well said, we will build it out.
Excellent!!
Ernst you are correct that the rise of private electricity generation capacity is the silver lining around a very dark cloud. There is however the one aspect of Eskom's demise that worries me no end and that is the debt burden of a failed state owned enterprise with massive debt that ultimately we the taxpayers have to pay whether we like it or not. The government borrows money as if there is no tomorrow, no thought is given to privatizing at least the working and viable parts of Eskom to offset or at least get to grips with the debt burden.
The government and the trade unions have this idea in their heads that there is an endless supply of cash which they are entitled to. Its the taxpayers money which they are custodians of and they are spending it and discounting future taxpayers money as if it is their right to do so in any way they see it.
I don't want to be around when the the cash dries up because all hell will break lose as they have rewarded the corrupt and ailed miserably to create an environment for business to flourish. The fat cats will be long gone when this gravy train runs off the rails.
Like in the rest of Africa's failed states, that is where SA is heading (practically there)
Too much talking and coming up with ideas yet no one is fixing it
That wont solve the problem
Yes, the debt is a huge problem. If another political party comes into power, where will it find the money to get rid of the debt? ... so it's a stale mate. America has similar problems, only about a month ago the debt level for government to borrow enough money to pay government employees had to be raised. So it seems that a democracy is also not the best form of government, but who has the solution?
Thank you kind Sir . Good Video
We can and shall Rise.
That is the problem all over in government departments that does not perform. A small group pull the wagon, while the rest takes a free ride, while also trodding, spitting and messing on the caring hard workers.
Eskom is to be broken up by province and privatized. The money for the saie can be used to pay the debt our country has. And finally the ANC must go.
Keep on day dreaming.
Dear Ernst. Your words of wisdom needs to fall onto the ears of those now brave enough to take the bull by the horns and resolve the issue at hand . The old adage of With the Will there is the Way ,applied fervently will accomplish success. God speed and Shalom.
Laziness _is incompetence._ Corruption _is incompetence._ etc., etc.
Meritocracy is everything, anything less is corruption and incompetence. That's it.
Dit lyk eerder vir my ons het hier te doen met die twee arms van die Een Wêreld Orde. 😮
Dis baie waar wat jy se maar mense het oogklappe aan en wil dit nie sien nie . Maar die spreekwoord se mos spyt kom te laat luister mooi wat hy se op die einde en besluit self die wat dit nie wil hoor nie .
I bookmarked Andre's interview and can't find it now. Help appreciated.
Wonderful insight that makes me think we are doomed.
Ernst tkx for you and Afriforum
Our household has already done its small contribution. We haven't bought electricity since March 2022 and it has been probably one of the wettest winters in Western Cape history. Yet we managed by without using as much as 10 kWh's over more than half a year. This, while increasing our electrical consumption by 4 (we're literaly using 4 times more electricity) due to AC's running almost 24/7, multiple washes from dishwashers, washing machines and running more kitchen appliances more frequently. All this is saving us around R1.5k per month of electricity that we're not paying for. It is the ONLY way to go.
Very good. Now what is your take on the millions of us who will never be able to purchase renewable energy products?
@@SpencerCourtis It is incredibly unfortunate. Especially those that rent or stay in multi storey flats. My hope is that the more people getting off grid, the situation would improve for everyone else. Divide what remains by fewer, meaning, there will be more power to those that cannot go the renewable route. My worry is all these big new companies like Data Centres popping up everywhere that is 20-100 MW, IT load only, not even mentioning half of that power needed to cool the place. This will most likely replace the vacuum left by those leaving the grid.
dear Ernst, thanks for a good information piece, as always. However, can we pleas stop referring to that place as Megawatt Park and rather Milliwatt Park
Eskom has to fold There's to many damaged links in the chain . You try fix one link the next brake same as the water system . It's just a matter of time and the hour glass is almost empty .
To be replaced with...?
Privatisation will lead to massive price increases.
Wow that was well worth the listen. Well done sir.
Ernst for President
Great synopsis Ernst, thanks.
Interesting viewpoint Ernst. The late Dr Ian McRae told Andre Dr Ruyter to do two things if he wants to be sucessful: he has to keep the politicians out of Eskom's engine room, and he has to take his people with him...
As much as I admired him (and still do), he was not able to achieve that. And that is not for a lack of trying..
An Ian Mc Rae was bullied in his time by John Maree.
ESKOM needs a new government
Speechless ......corruption and laziness ...call it whatever ...this is spot on
De Reyter a bright light ....
My point proved again.
Do not underestimate the role of the world elite in this. Their representatives in South Africa are doing a great job for them. Rupert, Oppenheimer, ... those types.
watching this video courtesy of my power station after saving for months... small vicotories count together.
The you for the insight and well articulated summation
Brilliant!
Great truth, great words of wisdom, great hope! Thank you Mr Roets
Thank you . Outstanding
True for the motor industry as well...one that runs on private cooldrink, quite simple.
Thank you Nozi, this is the simplified clarity i needed about this R25 cost. I am one of the people that did not know or receive the email about the changes
I was unaware of all of this.
Quoting Schopenhauer 'cleansing fire' analogies is akin to stating that there should b no concerns about the boiling frogs because there's tadpoles in the stream...
Cyril was once a union boss and most know how he got his money, and wasn't from union dues. The fish rots from the head down
The only problem South Africa has ever had, is and was the ANC and their bent Henchmen. Unfortunately it still is so..."If the Laws are Bad and you have good Officials, U can still perhaps run a country. But, if the Officials are Bad then no matter how Good the Laws are, it still won't help...the country.?.
The problems at Eskom and the resultant load shedding cannot be solved when the ANC is still in power. My fellow South Africans vote the ANC out of goverment. Let us vote foe a party that is proven to bring development in our country. The EFF is not the solution but the worst party one can possibly vote for.
Let's get our countey's infrastructure fixed.
I don't know how one can have political alliance be the primary concern when hiring engineers and not expect rampant incompetence.
The president's personal involvement in cadre deployment at Eskom is directly to blame for this BS, therefor it is one hundred percent expected that he would not want anyone to focus on that.
It has to reach rock bottom…. Unfortunately total black out before it can be fixed.
Total black out brings other problems.
Escom and trans-net can be rebuild if we go back to the plans and drawings of 1962. Why did the "Orange river development project" never happen? They identified 18 potential hydro electricity plants. From Alexander Bog, Augrabies , Douglas, Hopetown down to Bedford and out at Sundays.
The greatest obstacle facing any potential new government that may be elected, is making unrealistic promises that cannot be fulfilled.
That is the truth . But is not just at eskom . Is for the hole country . At every level , in every department , every business . Every person at every level must have a attitude change . Every person must have a self change in there behavior .
Unfortunately the ones who need to hear this message, don’t!
Great video quality!
Dankie Ernst .. uitstekend opgesom.
Excellent job 🎉❤
Incompetence is at the core of ALL South Africa's problems, not just Escom.
SABOTAGE is the key player to our electricity problem. Had it not been SABOTAGE, Andre de Ruyter wouldn't have been poisoned. Close to SABOTAGE is CORRUPTION. Other factors raised are secondary. SABOTAGE starts INTERNALLY at Eskom.
Awesome final statement!
We actually need to start protesting because this is an actual issue that's getting out of hand.
So we've had a period now of reduced loadshedding. Can anyone here perhaps tell us why? Are they burning more diesel again and if so where did they get it and how? Then finally when can we expect the return of stage 6 and alike? Thanks
@@dude_from_sa as it stands now we are currently on stage two, I'm not saying loadshedding went away or ever will.. I am simply asking if anyone perhaps has a forecast of when we can expect the heavy loadshedding we had not too long ago.. stage 6,7,8 ect?
You can ignore reality if you want to, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
There are ONLY two reasons for a human being not completing a task correctly .
1. They do not wish to do so.
2. They are technically, physically, mentally unable to do so.
Neither of these are an acceptable employee condition.
This thing of Eskom is giving me headache cos top officials are benefiting from load shedding...
The day in 1994 ANC said they can do better in everything was n lie.
Sadly looking at this from Ireland all l can say is to encouurzge a change in Govt.
Howeevrr eeven if this happens it will be years before anything actually changes.
I love your country but so sad to see it's rapid decline in my 14 visits since 1998.