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.
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
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.
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.
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?
The only answer now is Privatization and allowing a competitor to do a far better job and to charge more, i would pay up to 50% more for a consistent supply of electricity, i believe most people would too, But our Comrades over at the ANC wouldn't allow anyone to bite into their AMG and Kota funds .
The "source" is a very funny pun,being ESKOM,shoule be Ons Gaan or better still Siyahamba lalla pipeen ,yo this goverrrrrment is peppermint ,to our detrimenttttttt Sooga
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
@@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 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...
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.
@@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
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.
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
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...
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.
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
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 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.
“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
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.
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.
@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? 😆😄😃
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!! 🤔🤯
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.
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... 🇿🇦
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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?
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 .
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
The ANC have finally brought equality for all in SA....now everyone is poor, without electricity, clean water, or employment. You really showed the NP boertjies that they were wrong about you....
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 .
Restarting civilisation: Socialism mediocrity Centralised stupidity neutralised 💥by decentralised sharing of neural capacity. A neural network currently being digitised on blockchain. As a tool of securing sovereignty., and sharing power. 😬. Thanks Ernst. ☀️🌴
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.
@@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.
I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, show this also to thy servant: whether after death, as soon as every one of us yields up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come when thou wilt renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented at once?" 76 He answered me and said, "I will show you that also, but do not be associated with those who have shown scorn, nor number yourself among those who are tormented. 77 For you have a treasure of works laid up with the Most High; but it will not be shown to you until the last times. 78 Now, concerning death, the teaching is: When the decisive decree has gone forth from the Most High that a man shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, first of all it adores the glory of the Most High. 79 And if it is one of those who have shown scorn and have not kept the way of the Most High, and who have despised his law, and who have hated those who fear the Most High -- 80 such spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall immediately wander about in torments, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. 81 The first way, because they have scorned the law of the Most High. 82 The second way, because they cannot now make a good repentance that they may live. 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have trusted the covenants of the Most High. 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days. 85 The fifth way, they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by angels in profound quiet. 86 The sixth way, they shall see how some of them will pass over into torments. 87 The seventh way, which is worse than all the ways that have been mentioned, because they shall utterly waste away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall wither with fear at seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they sinned while they were alive, and before whom they are to be judged in the last times. 88 "Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from their mortal body. 89 During the time that they lived in it, they laboriously served the Most High, and withstood danger every hour, that they might keep the law of the Lawgiver perfectly. 90 Therefore this is the teaching concerning them: 91 First of all, they shall see with great joy the glory of him who receives them, for they shall have rest in seven orders. 92 The first order, because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was formed with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the unrighteous wander, and the punishment that awaits them. 94 The third order, they see the witness which he who formed them bears concerning them, that while they were alive they kept the law which was given them in trust. 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which they now enjoy, being gathered into their chambers and guarded by angels in profound quiet, and the glory which awaits them in the last days. 96 The fifth order, they rejoice that they have now escaped what is corruptible, and shall inherit what is to come; and besides they see the straits and toil from which they have been delivered, and the spacious liberty which they are to receive and enjoy in immortality. 97 The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their face is to shine like the sun, and how they are to be made like the light of the stars, being incorruptible from then on. 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all that have been mentioned, because they shall rejoice with boldness, and shall be confident without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom they served in life and from whom they are to receive their reward when glorified. 99 This is the order of the souls of the righteous, as henceforth is announced; and the aforesaid are the ways of torment which those who would not give heed shall suffer hereafter." 100 I answered and said, "Will time therefore be given to the souls, after they have been separated from the bodies, to see what you have described to me?" 101 He said to me, "They shall have freedom for seven days, so that during these seven days they may see the things of which you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered in their habitations." 102 I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, show further to me, thy servant, whether on the day of judgment the righteous will be able to intercede for the unrighteous or to entreat the Most High for them, 103 fathers for sons or sons for parents, brothers for brothers, relatives for their kinsmen, or friends for those who are most dear." 104 He answered me and said, "Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another; for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness." 2 Esdras 2:31 ,,,,,,,,,'''
Laziness _is incompetence._ Corruption _is incompetence._ etc., etc. Meritocracy is everything, anything less is corruption and incompetence. That's it.
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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.
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..
But look, what I don't understand, most of the street lights are left on during the days as well, now that was never like that before 1994. They worry about the people that steal the cables, let them be shocked when the try and steal the wires, then they will learn a lesson. Why must the people that pay for Electricity his without??
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.?.
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.
2018... (family empire building and treason) "Cyril Ramaphosa's brother in law Patrice Motsepe's African Rainbow Energy and Power increases solar stake. Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Energy and Power (AREP) and Absa launch African Rainbow Energy as a Leading Independent Renewable Energy Platform in South Africa - contracts worth Billions!"
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.
What is Cyril Ramaphosa's admin championing? If nothing, why are we doing nothing about it? Ramaphosa's failures are also visible from the ANC, how is ANC doing?
I know of a bee rep who worked for a company supplying goods to eskom. He said he could do better if he loaded quotes and kicked back to buyers and asked me what he should do. I said whatever he thought best... He now has a multimillion engineering company in alroad in alberton. I wonder what he decided...?
