South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the energy department will take over responsibility for overseeing state utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which has been failing to meet the nation’s power demand since 2008.
That could potentially signal a dissolution of the Department of Public Enterprises, which oversees Eskom, logistics company Transnet SOC Ltd. and several other entities. Eskom, which supplies more than 90% of South Africa’s electricity, has been at the epicenter of a national energy crisis, because its old and poorly maintained plants can’t generate adequate power to meet demand.
The government has already announced plans to split the nearly century-old company into three units and take over part of its debt to try and make it financially sustainable.
Eishkom version -10.0123 eleventy hundred?
Heavens no!!!
As long as this solves the problem. I don't care who comes and goes. And I don't care if they are white or black cadres (Andre was a cadre) we just want electricity
Finally a sensible decision 👏🏼. After all eskom is an energy producer first before making profit.
What a joke. Who are they kidding - more money to steal from the poverty stricken South Africans
Now the corrupt will wallow
The whole government doesn't know what to do with ESKOM. They are destroying Gordan's ego about his turn around strategy and bringing in the most arrogant of them all. Level 12 is loading, unless they fix Mantashe's security cameras.
OK ... Why & how?
Liewe donner
How's that gonna help end loadshedding?
Just another disaster. Anything controlled by a cov.department is doomed and is a total failure.
So that can steal unhindered.
But what have the energy department been doing all this time if they haven’t been overseeing the sole energy producer? 🤔
Necsa has been working hard to turnaround the organisation and its image and has a stable management team, the building of a nuclear plant is best fit at Necsa. Currently under Eskom there is heavy sabotage.
And what can you do better. Steal more.... put Cadres in there to muck it up further....
This one is holding SA random
Ufuna ukuzibambela mathupha uGwede, akawuzwa lodoti wokuyeka i-coal
Gwede can now make his stomach even bigger. Kickback heaven.
Shifted from one department to the next. It will probably go to the Dept of Tourism next. voetsekANC
This is for GwedeMantashe1
As long as they are not addressing scenes like this nothing will save Eskom from collapsing
As long is it makes yt people unhappy I'm happy.
Pravin Gordhan was just getting paid gratis , with eskom on auto pilot.
2024 is around the corner, they are scrambling to brag about 'something' when campaigning...😅🤣 Forgetting that they caused the problem in the first place.
Look at us now, Eskom doing what it does, plunged us straight into Stage 6 loadshedding, sounds about as useless as Gwede Mantashe is
What difference is that going to make That department is also useless!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 joke
Gwede in charge of Eskom? Now we are truly screwed.
Noooo way
Eskom is fked.
Hopefully with a different minister...
Moving the decks on the Titanic
About faaking time
Finally
Ramaphosa lacks balls to fire Pravin that's all
That’s a stupid move
It’s only white people who are pressed about this move. This tells me Gwede made the right decision.
Now the shit is really going to hit the fan...but don't worry it won't be working because there won't be any power.
HeavenHelpSA OUTASA UniqueSAProblem MARIUSBROODRYK
So they changed one flat tyre with an even flatter tyre 🤡
I hope we're not going to be led to another Kapowership by Mantashe. What does Mantashe know about energy?
Disaster. Prices to skyrocket soon. For the little power you will get.
It's gonna be worse.. Corruption will be worse.. He wants to loot easly..
Good
CoruscaKhaya Gweezy, one of the worst of the worst💀
And loot it to death?
Yhea Eskom is done for real now. Government will turn it into anothr Post Office withon a year. We are totally screwed
GOD HELP US ALL!!!!
oh my!!
The age of the dinasour is here again
Nothing will change for better. Wrong leadership.
Oh mein gott!
So is he going to talk about the bid procurement process now? How about the REIPPPP process? Parliament needs to come soon.
Oh Jeez, now we really screwed with incoherent, senile, incompetent, criminal, clown in charge.
From bad to worse
What department of energy... Didn't know we had one
Gwede got his rewards.
GwedeMantasheSG 🤣🤣🤣...I dont think you could keep a torch on
10 days into 2023 and Eskom_SA and GovernmentZA have a perfect score: 100% for load shedding.Things move slowly in govt you say, CyrilRamaphosa. But here you outdo yourself 👏
Fokop loading...
12 Hour load shedding schedules on the Menu!!!!😭
Makes sense!
Heaven help us
nationalise that company once, so it can die peacefully
Right 🙄
Department of no energy.
What a joke
Oh my word what can go wrong …
IT REEKS OF CORRUPTION...
Ooohh f....
De Ruyter saw it coming
Welele
Ba tlo e qetela
This is going to be fun watching how they screw up.... Must stock up on my popcorn
What a huge mistake this is going to be. So now the milking of what is left of Eskom will go into a higher drive. Things will only get worse.
What could possibly go wrong...
Nah this cannot be right but I hope it ends loadshedding ✊🏾
Problem solved. Feel so much better now. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Nooooo!!
And then, just like that,...Karpower ship arrives with balloons and anc flags.
Oh s***t that is bad news! Get out the candles Eskom breaking down completely!
We didn't expect anything less. Open cheque book.
Just state that Gwede opposes a non reliable green energy that is being imposed on SA and it will not even solve loadshedding problems
Long overdue... Pravin is useless
Wonderful
CoruscaKhaya Oh groovy
About fucking time
To fill his briefcase even more
Musical chairs.
Help!!
The only plan that Mantashe has is Karpowerships, not because he belives it is the best solution for SA but for the massive kick back he will receive if he pushes it through.
someone save us please
That is ridiculous
Great new I’ve ever heard
To do what...Eskom and the whole ANC must just go jire they like a plague
As long as gwede is at the head of this organization we are lost. How long before those power generating ships are introduced to our system? At what cost? anc has no idea about finances and how it works. Other than enriching themselves. Let's see how this works out
This is the tow truck crashing with the written-off car on its deck.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well played Gwede, time to eat
Well this sounds like good news.
Oh for...!Dept of Energy has done absolutely nothing in all these years so now it's just official that they will continue to do nothing!Although Mantashe better be held responsible this time around as he always manages to avoid responsibility for loadshedding & energy crisis.
Great move
The ANC can't run anything. We should privatize Eskom
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Uncle Gweezy for the win! He has been the most sober minded when articulating Eskoms problems. Now Cyril must do the reshuffle. What he waiting for? It’s been 4 years of a stalemate
Eish, get ready for Stage 8 cause this minister doesnt believe in renewable or that there a problem with Eskom
Worse. Which company under government is doing well?
Great 😊
More loadshedding more corruption VoetsekANC
Stop coal export to European countries with immediate effect, I😆 want to see something🤔🤔🤔🇿🇦🇿🇦🔌PutSouthAfricansFirst PhalaPhalaFarmGate
The last looting of this company will take its tall now
The ATM will now be under their direct control
OMFG...
The most corrupt and powerful Minister in the cabinet.,Mr. Mantashe. I'm not surprised Andre was poisoned. He told to leave policing at Eskom. What does that mean?
This is great. Minister Gordhan was one of the weakest links. Energy policy certainty is important. Hopefully the role of the IPPs alongside REs will be reviewed and clarified.
So that they can completely fuck it up
Collapse the Department of State Enterprise and take the entities to their respective portfolios. DME is the custodian of Energy Act why are they not the oversight function of Eskom? Same goes for SANRAL and Dept of Transport. These conflicts create unaccountability
pmcafrica That’s it - I’m moving to Europe
As long Gwede is not the minister. The guy is useless
Loadshedding is about to get a Boost. Looting Spree Loading. Ha ha ha CyrilRamaphosa
Nothing to worry about. The ANC government is useless in all things especially implementing their policy changes. It will be another 10 years before this happens 😂
So you want minister 'I'm not responsible' and coal and unions king GwedeMantashe1 to be responsible for Eskom_SA?
pmcafrica This news will give nickhedley heart palpitations 🤣
We are truly f**ked.
God help us.
GwedeMantashe1 lead us out of this mass…
And so it begins ...
Stage 16 load shedding, here we come...
And that was the goal of that muppet
Gwede can now fcuk it up totally.
That is what Gwede have been wanting all his life ...
Oh no this is just the tip of the iceberg They are moving pieces for the long game which started in back 2004 Mantashe does not have the capacity to run the SOE but if he is in that position for 4 years... something good is coming his way. watch this space. poor Andrè🤷🏿♂️
Cry the beloved country.
Fuck!
As much as I welcome the move, I am suspecting that Mantashe saved Ramaphosa from falling on his sword in the Phala Phala scandal in exchange of this position.
The End .
well it provides energy mos
Yes! Rescue us from the incompetence of Jamnadas.
Yeah thats gonna end well. The only thing fatso should be in charge of is a nice salad.
This is nothing but a way of controlling the narrative and protecting themselves from exposure
Kwanyiwa
oh my fok. nou gaan daar eers fokol van Eskom oorbly.🤣
great. more looting...
They problems will never go away...the COI only, will make sure of this.
Hopefully GwedeMantashe1 fires Andre. There’s no need for him to stay on until March. Also Gweezy uncle, me thinks you should conscript BrianMbm1 and koko_matshela. Conscript them. Ke tirelo Sechaba. Simple as that.
Soon we'll have Bra jacob_maroga as Eskom CEO and within 6 months no lore loadshedding. The economy will grow and your investors will come. Simple
Mantashe to take the heat. Nice. He needs grilling.
Bluehawktactic1 Well that is the end, there will be no recovery from this...
Solar installers for residential clients better stock up. There is a lot of work and new clients coming.
Ahhh yes, 'controlled corruption'.... 😐
SouthAfricansP1 So the underbite, overboep mongrel can force Rosatom and Karpowership down our throats, and give away our base minerals in exchange, for peanuts.
Now it will fail even more!
I think its a good move, it will finally be run by energy engineers.
Mthigo_ Gwede is about to bulldoze his Karpowership deal, no wonder Andre decided to throw in the towel now.
This is definitely not going to change anything unfortunately and it's just a time wasting exercise by the government to make it seem like they're doing something
🤗🫡I hope it works for the better
Good move
Now we wait and see ❓😳🤹♂️🇿🇦🌍
To be managed by this guy who can’t even walk properly 😂🤣😂🤣😂 It’s tough for both neighbours justpassing
Is it because they scared of Pravin
In his favor
If this was the plan CyrilRamaphosa mentioned then we are doomed
We can't even make out what this clown says in press conferences. He just mumbles about without saying anything.
Not so fast. Sisfikile is full time at Luthuli. DPE gets scrapped, Gweezy takes over Eskom, Pravin takes over Transport
😌😍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
This is not going to end well.
Perfect ..the coup de grâce..that's what Eskom needed
You must be joking …
This is the beginning of the end as we all know it. Farewell my fellow South Africans.
HKGK
To steal more
Worst!!!
chrisyelland And 1 ,2 3 it is completely fucked up!!
Level 10 coming. Total blackout.
MgodoyiR It has become inevitable. PG has destroyed all kinds of oversight mechanisms to the point that he made the existence of the DPE totally irrelevant.
Mthigo_ Some good news 🙌🏽 hope he will revive the dead entity
Power Ships (Mantashe Pension Fund) appearing soon
This is not going to end well.
Veetorque The Tiger is the Tiger
🤡🤡🤡
what could go wrong?
To protect the skelms
So all this time eskom was run by itself yet it's a government department. Now how does that work? Oh wait it doesn't work. Every government department doesn't work.
Finish off the carcas
It was planned
Now they are going royal in looting
Just so they can loot it further!
Carl_CE50 From bad to worse
Looting and feeding at the trough! Renewal or reversal? With bowling bowl Betty we are in for perpetual darkness and poverty and the elite few.
Makes me think of the movie 'Adrift'
What Gweezy has always wanted. Let’s see what happens next🤔
My Fok
So Mantashe is now our real president, first getting rid of the CEO, now taking the whole company Eskom_SA... All part of the Ramaphosa negotiations... What next?
Loota continua!!! Hieeeehaaaaa!!! mantashe got what he wanted…and all it did was some cyanide in a cup-o-coffee?
this the plan to fix eskom?
Lookout for Russian nuclear power plants coming to your neighbourhood soon 🤷🏻♂️
Great news for solar inverter installers nation wide. Decentralize energy production.
We're totally fucked....huge stealing, mismanagement until there's nothing left.
Ah ah ah ah here come legit blackouts 💀💀
But will we have electricity?
chrisyelland Reporting to Gweezy? Phuck up loading
Nationalization done the ANC way. Stealing a public utility without public consent.
If that's the plan to fix the energy crisis we are propery screwed
Same script, same cast 🙄🤷🏾♂️🎬
chrisyelland Just what Mantashe wanted.. He's in control.. Power ships with big fat dollops of kickbacks on their way..
Let’s burn the coal wena Mantashe don’t listen to the west
chrisyelland Lord help us all. 😔
Load-shedding will never be solved
We are fucked 🤌🏾
Welcome to another 10 years of loadshedding and a fucked up economy while Gwede builds more coal fired stations.
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