Eskom problems are far from over as the state owned power utility is face with a number of challenges, that includes senior managers not interested and willing to do their jobs.
While bribing the media about the current state of affairs on going load shedding.
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said, “we could have avoided it, but regrettably, the lack of reliability of our system caught up with us, and we had to implement load-shedding.”
The CEO de Ruyter conceded that the working culture at the power utility is note right as majority of staff are interested in self enrichment and lining up their own pockets.
“When you look at the bad habits that many of Eskom employees acquired during the era of state capture – especially when some of my less than illustrious predecessors were in charge and pulled levers to enrich themselves — that embedded very poor operational practices,” he said.
“To unlearn those practices are going to require some doing. We have already made a number of management changes”, he added.
De Ruyter said the fact that many Eskom managers — who are exceptionally well paid — do not take pride in their jobs and ensure their power stations run well is causing him to lose sleep.
“One person cannot operate a power station, which means you have to rely on the skills you have available. That malaise which crept in over the years will take time to restore,” he said.
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