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Greedy Ramaphosa Wants More From His & ANC’s Personal BEE Cash Cow, Eskom – He Finally Admits Medupi & Kusile Are Unreliable (Have Been Bled Dry) Even As The Blame Game Rages On…

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Planning to fail: Having pocketed millions, if not billions, by plundering Eskom in all sorts of ways through a variety of tender companies and who knows what else, it seems Cyril and The ANC have finally realised the Medupi & Kusile projects have bled dry, and are now looking for new ways to employ (steal) taxpayers money, to continue bleeding them dry… yet another new huge expensive project with new tenders, contracts, bribes & kickbacks. It is the same all over South Africa, build a new school, extort tenders, contracts, bribes & kickbacks. Then burn it down and steal more from the taxpayer by building another school with more tenders, contracts, bribes and kickbacks. The African Way.

It is incredible that Ramaphosa now says that the much vaunted Medupi and Kusile Power Stations, with an ultimate costs as high as R451 BILLION are unreliable! This after the ANC’s investment arm, Chancellor House, made up to R150 Million profit from the proje
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Black advantage at the expense of the entire country and its residents does not work – “Bring white engineers back to save Eskom from ruin” asks NUMSA union

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Skill, knowledge, competence, reliability, and realistic remuneration have won over the ideology of black favoritism at the expense of the entire country and its inhabitants.

The trade union Numsa has now, after 25 years of other thinking, called on the regime to put together a team of experts in collaboration with the unions to save Eskom from ruin.

The experts, comprising a list of some 350 engineers, must be brought back to support the new leader in the Eskom network.

Numsa says the power provider does not have the human resources to do the necessary maintenance at the power stations.

Observers and expert engineers say it is striking that Numsa is suddenly taking a turn around over the expertise to be brought back, while screaming for 25 years against the whites employed.

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NO SABOTAGE AT ESKOM – POWER GRID IN SA FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE

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Now the truth comes out, and it is not what Ramaphosa told you . Ramaphosa told the country this past Wednesday that sabotage was the reason for phase 6 loadshedding and it happened when an unspecified instrument was disconnected from one of the boilers at the Tutuka power station and that this led to the loss of as much as 2000MW of power.

But in an investigation by Rapport this statement was found not to be true.

The truth is a lack of planning and maintenance of power stations, especially the boilers. Rapport has spoken to both an energy expert, Mike Rossouw, and Solidarity who has many members in that sector and the true state of Eskom was revealed by them. The loss of 2 units at Tutuka power station, where Ramaphosa said sabotage is to blame, has more logical reasons and it boils down to a lack of maintenance.

Deon Reyneke, Solidarity trade union’s deputy head responsible for Eskom, has given the true reasons for the loss of 2 units at Tutuka. The first
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#Rollingblackouts in SA mos definitely caused by BEE, racial quotas, cadre deployment and outright looting!

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Yes, without a doubt the c-ANC-er broke Eskom, like they broke everything else. And they are making money from it too.

It is known that the ANC’s investment arm called Chancellor House made a 5000 % profit on its investment in Hitachi South Africa which had the tender for the boilers of Medupi and Kusile power stations. It was also reported in the media that Hitachi did a shoddy job with the welding of the boilers, which will shorten the life expectancy of the entire Medupi and Kusile. Chancellor House is also a shareholder of Pfisterer, a Pietermaritzburg based company supplying equipment to Eskom.

Today Eskom is producing less electricity than in 2007, costing more per unit price and using a bigger workforce than ever before, earning bigger salaries and bonuses.

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#RollingBlackouts are back due to a shortage of power generation at Eskom power stations contributed by lack of skill

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Eskom announced early on Wednesday that phase 2 load shedding will be activated from 09:00 to 23:00. The severe power constraints are apparently caused by a broken coal conveyor belt at the Medupi power station. This reduced the station’s power supply by half. The struggling power supplier said in a brief statement that due to a lack of generating capacity, he was forced to take this step.

According to Eskom, they have been extensively using the help of pump generators and open cycle gas turbines since Saturday to make up for the electricity shortage, but cannot sustain due to the decline in dam and diesel levels. In addition, five generating units are not available due to boiler tube leaks. As a result, the state entity then had to implement Phase 2 Load shedding from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm which dumps 2000 MW of power on a rotational basis to prevent a total collapse in the power grid. Phase 1 is the ‘lightest’ load shedding schedule, while up to 4,000 MW of power ca
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Medupi and Kusile power stations are still “off the grid” due to poor construction work, corruption and cost overruns

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More than 600 senior officials from Eskom and some executives were informed of the entity’s “turnaround” plan. According to documentation, Eskom is sitting without cash and has almost completely collapsed on several occasions.

R130bn has been loaned to the power provider and the state is expected to help as government announces increased tariffs. Eskom unbundling continues but will take four years to finalize. So the future is still bleak around the entity with its overloaded workforce and top structure officials.

In the last two years, Eskom reported a loss of R2.3 billion while R19.6 billion was wasted on unauthorized expenses.

In the meantime, Medupi and Kusile power stations are still “off the grid” due to poor construction work, corruption and cost overruns.

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During the ANC regime, roughly R500 billion has been looted by Eskom contractors, which partly explains why South Africa is in such a big financial mess – it is unsure if the culprits will be brought to justice

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A Special Investigation Unit is currently investigation more than eleven contractors whom are suspected of robbing the power utility of billions of rand.

The contractors looted R130 billion from Eskom during the construction of the two new power stations, Medupi and Kusile as well as the Ingula power station.

From the so-called “inner circles” it is claimed that plundering at Eskom has been taken place since 2005, which partly explains why South Africa has ended up in a financial mess.

A spokesman said Eskom had been robbed of R170bn, of which R130bn was directly related to so-called contractors working at the different power plants.

Investigation is now being done to determine who has committed theft, and who worked within Eskom to benefit the thieves.

Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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South Africans should brace for more rolling blackouts as the power grid is unstable and cannot produce enough power to sustain the country

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Eskom warned of wider controlled power cuts on Monday after six additional generating units unexpectedly went offline. The power utility launched stage 4 load shedding, which requires the shedding of 4 000 megawatts from the grid.

The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry is shocked by the sudden dramatic increase in load shedding.

“How is it possible for six units to go down at the same time?” asked Ms Janine Myburgh, President of the Chamber. “It is just too much of a co-incidence and we must ask if this is not another case of sabotage?”

Sabotage was blamed for a previous bout of load shedding, but the form it took was never explained to the public, except for workers who prevented coal deliveries from taking place.

“Stage Four load shedding is very serious indeed and it will affect commerce and industry. This will also affect the jobs of other workers, especially in heavy industry and it is time that workers whose jobs are at
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There you have it! – Chinese Bank Takes Absolute Control Over All Eskom Power Stations In South Africa If Default In Payment Plan Transpires

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In another huge loan of 33.4 billion rand the Chinese Exim Bank (Export-Import Bank of China) will take over the Eskom Facility Plant in South Africa. This was announced by a recent tweet from Exim Bank.

Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission. Eskom operates a number of notable power stations, including Kendal Power Station, and Koeberg nuclear power station in the Western Cape Province, the only nuclear power plant in Africa.

Eskom generates 95% of electricity in South Africa and has the only nuclear power station in Africa.

Can this actually be true?: Chinese Bank Takes Absolute Control Over All Eskom Power Stations In South Africa

The company is divide
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This is what happens when BEE contractors are prefer over skilled labour!: Medupi and Kusile- The two new coal-fired power stations’ “error” repair costs already amount to R2 billion.

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According to observers, the repair costs of errors at the Medupi and Kusile coal-powered power stations are already nearing R2 billion.

This puts the expected start up costs at R292 billion, which is twice the initial estimated cost. The device that grinds the coal, the furnaces and other systems at both plants does not function properly and is attributed to poor craftsmanship.

The two plants were erected by people who had never undertaken such an assembly project, and took it much longer to complete than initially calculated.

Photo – Medupi

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