Eskom CEO chaos continues…

Joe,

Please phone Vivianne Komani on 043 705 3926 or Gavin Symon on 043 705 3344 or Zukiswa Mjali on 043 705 3906 for assistance.

Speaking of anger I have just spent half an hour on the phone to the municipality with guess what, nobody answering the empowered phones.

This call to try to establish how much to pay on an account. Then of course they whine about mounting debts and that nobody is paying their accounts.

Yep, speak about anger and wonder why.

“Incompetents led by incompetents” It’s a recurring theme.

No surprises spent a lot of money on calls but moved no closer to the facts as never did get to speak to anyone other than a receptionist who is also surprised and cannot figure out why no one answers the phones.

(I could fortunately explain to her that it’s because the staff figure they don’t have to and have noticed that there work flow declines without any consequence if they don’t)

To add insult to injury we must pay rates that have doubled. Somebody find me a calabash please.

Okay, guys, something a bit lighter to give a chuckle:

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country. He decides he’ll pick the least painful to spend his eternity. He goes to German Hell and asks, “What do they do here?”
He is told first they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day”. The man does not like the sound of that at all so he moves on.

He checks out the USA Hell as well as the Russian Hell and many more. He discovers that they are all similar to the German hell.

Then he comes to the South African Hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in.. Amazed, he asks, “What do they do here?” He is told: first they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. The South African devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day. “But that is
exactly the same as all the other *****. Why are there so many people waiting to get in?” he asks.

“Because Eskom is struggling and is powerless, there is never any electricity, so the electric chair does not work. The nails were paid for but never supplied, so the bed is comfortable to sleep on. And, on top of that, the South African devil is a government employee, he wont come to work till he gets his 12% increase, which of course will never happen!

Agreed Patrick. Among all the bad things, we overlook the good. A change in perspective will do us all a lot of good.

By the way, what a lovely story about a clerk at the Khomga Magistrate Court on the blogs today.

Just when you think that all of the SAcans have become entangled in the quagmire of corruption, as stated by TJ, a ray of light shines through our endless generalisations.

Well done Clerk of the Court.

cryinginmymqomboti,TJ,

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate it.

The reason why i ask the question, is because of a blog i read in the Times and it made me start to think about our attitude towards each other. Here is an exert from the blog. I think it may explain all arguments on this blogs, and i hope that we could change it.

In the past few weeks, I have thought a lot about that simple but profound statement: “I can hear my own voice.”
I am convinced that we seldom take the time to hear what we sound like.

We are an angry people.
Whether it is the noise around the leadership of Eskom, or the treatment of Ms Caster Semenya, or the fate of a politician, we scream and shout with anger.

We have become deaf to our own voices.

For the first time, I now understand how the widespread xenophobic attacks could have happened last year – we carry our anger on our sleeves.

This anger, unleashed, can turn otherwise peaceful citizens into murderous villains in seconds.
We should be very worried about this. No wonder we are among the most murderous nations in the world.
Small wonder women are exposed to danger in so many homes because of angry men.

Should we be surprised that small children are constantly exposed to abuse, even rape, by grown men?
We are an angry people.

I expect denial. After all, we can justify our anger: our own pain matters; nobody else has pain. I am right; the other side is wrong. There is no complexity, no grey area, no subtlety – just the harsh, unforgiving and relentless noise of accusation and dismissal.

Here’s the problem: Anger, like most emotions, can be reproduced. The son who observes the anger of a father often becomes angry himself, assuming the same posture of abuse against women, for example.
Anger then becomes normative; it is not only how we are, it defines who we are.

Phumzo why are you suddenly so quiet?

Patrick, because they are. Every single one stands up for the other. Not one will stand up and say ” Eish my brother, that is wrong”
That is why these bolgs go on and on. Not one of you will say” Yes that was wrong. Instead you spew forth apartheid stories.
And that is way I now only have a calabash

@ Patrick … Maybe it is because… ummmm… they basically are?

Not all, mind you, but, well, yeah, that is the the impression the bad apples are giving out at present. Remember, a chain is only as stong as it’s weakest link!

cryinginmyumqmboti,

Why do some bloggers generally refers to the ANC led administration as corrupt?

Chairperson of the portfolio committee on Public Entreprises and people like Phumzo a spreading this hogwash out loud. To my siprise they hardly know the facts. I just hope theirs is an error of judgement and not stupidity as the later will resurface time and time again.

As usual Phumzo goes shooting off the mouth without all the facts to hand.

This whole Eishdom thing is really getting out of hand. This is like a fully loaded rudderless supertanker heading for East London – nothing to stop the disaster waiting to happen.

@Gr8, it works for The ANC. Look how rich and powerfull they have become.

Friends and family (which includes comrades) in business does not work. It has been proven over and over and over again.

@Phumzo, may I kindly refer you to the following article which appeared in our paper and online: http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=358811. I suggest you give it a read before joining in the conversation. – Online News Ed.

@Phumzo,
Yesterday you defended the mighty Maroga, even calling Bobby a liar when he said Maroga had given verbal notice. Today even the rest of the board is accepting he did resign verbally. Verbally is binding in a normal world where people do not lie steal and cheat. Asd the ex Athletics SA. (or ANC Cadre)

@Phumzo Yesterday you entertained us with a wonderfull movie where they cut back and forth between the slums of apartheid and the rich suburbs of whites.
Well, they are making another such movie.
Scene 1: The slums of broken down RDP houses built by corrupt officials.
Scene 2: For dramatic effect they cut into a scene from the rich suburbs of East London. Cut cut , shouts the director, I did not want another slum scene. We are in the rich suburbs, shouts the film crew, this is the suburbs managed by the ANC, you know!!!!

Phumzo, never have I heard such claptrap from such a deeply ignorant source. How nice to live in such a simple world.

People, Jacob is still the CEO, and Bobby is gone as he’s messed up the whole resignation saga to save his skin and that of his entire board. One thing for sure is that not all is well at Eskom ranging from trnsformation from a Afrikaner male-dominated affirmative institution to a representative one to power hikes.
Both and Maroga are members of the ANC who were assigned the responsibility of transforming that institution.
Both men are competent visionaries who have the interest of SA at heart. It looks as if it’s a matter of two bulls in one kraal – differences in employing working strategies.
I wonder who initiated the power hikes between the two, given the financial situation all over the world.
These guys should have handled it better, but messed up amid revelations that that the CEO and Chairperson are responsible for the fiasco at that institution!!