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Staff Writer24 July 2022Eskom is bleeding skills
Eskom employees are divided on the role that race-based transformation has played in the skills shortage that is hampering the utility’s ability to keep the lights on, Sunday Times reports.
The paper also reported that Eskom is struggling to staff all the shifts at its coal power stations due to a rapid loss of technical skills.
That has resulted in the remaining skilled workers having to clock excessive overtime and essential training being scrapped.
Eskom told the publication that 209 skilled staff from its generation division had resigned or retired in the past three months.
The utility lost 295 more employees at other divisions during the same period.
Combined, these employees had 12,160 years of related experience and 13,364 years of Eskom service.
And here is the punchline...''Vacancies have been filled with people who have the necessary academic qualifications. However, they possess much less practical experience than those they replaced..''
Eskom is bleeding skills — but race elephant clouds debate
Racial divisions make Eskom’s skills shortage an elephant in its boardrooms, while Solidarity says BEE procurement requirements cause South Africa’s electricity prices to be 27% higher than they need to be.
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Massive visa fraud uncovered in South Africa.
[not news at all ...]
Massive visa fraud uncovered in South Africa: minister
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says that a ministerial committee reviewing permits and visas in South Africa has uncovered deep-rooted corruption within his department when it comes to handling certain types of visas.
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''Vacancies have been filled with people who have the necessary academic qualifications. However, they possess much less practical experience than those they replaced..'' <-That 20% school / varsity pass mark / lucky packet degree methinks may have more to do with the problem than experience
Staff Writer24 July 2022
Eskom is bleeding skills
Eskom employees are divided on the role that race-based transformation has played in the skills shortage that is hampering the utility’s ability to keep the lights on, Sunday Times reports.
The paper also reported that Eskom is struggling to staff all the shifts at its coal power stations due to a rapid loss of technical skills.
That has resulted in the remaining skilled workers having to clock excessive overtime and essential training being scrapped.
Eskom told the publication that 209 skilled staff from its generation division had resigned or retired in the past three months.
The utility lost 295 more employees at other divisions during the same period.
Combined, these employees had 12,160 years of related experience and 13,364 years of Eskom service.
And here is the punchline...''Vacancies have been filled with people who have the necessary academic qualifications. However, they possess much less practical experience than those they replaced..''
Eskom is bleeding skills — but race elephant clouds debate
Racial divisions make Eskom’s skills shortage an elephant in its boardrooms, while Solidarity says BEE procurement requirements cause South Africa’s electricity prices to be 27% higher than they need to be.
Amazon fed up — could pull plug on new Cape Town headquarters
[SA needs economic injections like this BUT ....]In an affidavit from spokesperson and trustee for LLPT, James Tannenberger, the developers said they had been advised that further delays could push the work back between 12 to 24 months.
“Any such delay would almost certainly see ADC terminating the development agreement and the lease agreements, as it would be entitled to do. Indeed, even a reduced delay of six months will result in termination by ADC,” said Tannenberger.
Amazon fed up — could pull plug on new Cape Town headquarters
The developer of the complex which is set to house Amazon’s new headquarters in South Africa has warned any further construction delays could see the company pull the plug, costing billions of rand and thousands of jobs lost.
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AA test results for safety ratings for ''cheaper'' cars
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Safety ratings of South Africa’s cheapest cars
The Automobile Association has classified South Africa’s cheapest cars into acceptable, moderate, and poor safety categories.
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I believe one of the proposals is to let the station manager decide on petrol attendants.IT’S OFFICIAL | Govt has started the process to deregulate the petrol price
let's hope something happens ...
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Appart from the job losses, here's another reason we need them.
Luckily I have been to Tops today
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President to address the nation on energy crisis | The Presidency
There is no way that's correct. I had a kwid (though not the 2022 model but extremely close to it) and I nearly died in it.AA test results for safety ratings for ''cheaper'' cars
View attachment 259771Safety ratings of South Africa’s cheapest cars
The Automobile Association has classified South Africa’s cheapest cars into acceptable, moderate, and poor safety categories.
City of Cape Town Mayor to buy Private Power in bid to end load shedding
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis will be outlining plans to buy private power outage in a bid to end the on coming blackouts.The extensive planning sessions are between the city, the private commercial consumers and the NGO green company GreenCape.
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Move to CT because we are the BEST!
Luckily I have been to Tops today
President to address the nation on energy crisis | The Presidency
Let me sum it up for you.
"We are going to our job, what we should have done 10 years ago."
Indeed! ... and some! .... My concern extends further, in that we've seen this dog and pony show before ... and this may just be more verbage as excluding the 2007 and 2010, (leading up to the World Cup nogal), power crisis', it continued intermittently, (pun intended), to 2014, where Squirrel was given the restructure / turnaround mandate, (under Zuma ... and we all know about that lil', erm ... thievery exercise), and ... we see a lot of nothingness being done up to now
... (and after too in all likelihood, based on history).Ramaphosa to oversee Eskom, SAA turnaround | Business
Eskom has been instructed to work with the private sector as Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will oversee the turnaround of Eskom, SAA and the Post Office.
when we read Tsotsi's and Mantana's vain attempts at deflection under fear of being implicated in State Capture ... these "baskets" are all simply put ... incorrigible Eskom’s problems primarily due to failure of ANC’s policies
THE PROBLEMS of Eskom are unfortunately not technical in nature, but primarily failures of policy on the part of the ANC government.
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The City of Ekurhuleni’s honour of being the only South African metro with a clean 2020/21 audit from the Auditor-General might be tarnished by a leaked memorandum indicating supply chain management irregularities that may have led to the manipulation of a R320-million tender.
The memo, sent by the Ekurhuleni City Manager Imogen Mashazi in January 2020, relates to apparent financial fiddling within the supply chain management (SCM) and to other departments, including the fleet management department.
Tender AFM/05/2020, worth R320-million, was issued by Ekurhuleni’s transport and fleet management department for a panel of motor service providers to maintain, service and repair the city’s 4,800 vehicles. It started out as AFM/03/2020 and fell outside the Auditor-General clean audit period.
With allegations of unpaid former suppliers, new suppliers not meeting requirements and the tender being rigged, forensic auditor and fraud risk management consultant Bart Henderson talks of “deliberate sabotage of the new administration, blatant insubordination or blatant opportunism, or a combination of all three”.
Henderson says tender AFM/05/2020 is “off the charts in terms of red flags”.
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The memo, sent by the Ekurhuleni City Manager Imogen Mashazi in January 2020, relates to apparent financial fiddling within the supply chain management (SCM) and to other departments, including the fleet management department.
Tender AFM/05/2020, worth R320-million, was issued by Ekurhuleni’s transport and fleet management department for a panel of motor service providers to maintain, service and repair the city’s 4,800 vehicles. It started out as AFM/03/2020 and fell outside the Auditor-General clean audit period.
With allegations of unpaid former suppliers, new suppliers not meeting requirements and the tender being rigged, forensic auditor and fraud risk management consultant Bart Henderson talks of “deliberate sabotage of the new administration, blatant insubordination or blatant opportunism, or a combination of all three”.
Henderson says tender AFM/05/2020 is “off the charts in terms of red flags”.
www.msn.com
E-hailing service drivers (Uber and Bolt amongst others) have threatened a stay away from the 8th of August unless they get a fare increase from management.
The drivers are accusing Uber and Bolt of prioritizing commission and undermining them. In March this year, the drivers also embarked on a nationwide strike pleading for government’s intervention. Chief among their complaints was the fact that the sector isn’t regulated, which they said paves the way for them being exploited by the companies.
www.thesouthafrican.com
The drivers are accusing Uber and Bolt of prioritizing commission and undermining them. In March this year, the drivers also embarked on a nationwide strike pleading for government’s intervention. Chief among their complaints was the fact that the sector isn’t regulated, which they said paves the way for them being exploited by the companies.
www.thesouthafrican.com
TYRE TRAUMA..
Consumers, particularly those who use taxis, could be faced with even higher transport costs, the Tyre Importers Association of South Africa warned this week.
This comes after Continental, Bridgestone, Goodyear, and Sumitomo - collectively known as the South African Tyre Manufacturers Conference - applied to have additional duties imposed on tyres imported from China.
The Tyre Importers Association said if the application was successful, it would have a material impact on the price of tyres across the board, and that it was therefore opposing the application to the International Trade Administration Commission to impose additional duties of between 8 and 69% on passenger, taxi, bus and truck vehicle tyres imported from China.
Charl de Villiers the chairperson of the Tyre Importers Association said the application for duties was absurd since the applicants collectively imported 80% of the tyres they sold. .
“Even more concerning is that vehicle owners, when faced with such dramatic cost increases, may trade down to second hand or illicit tyres, or simply delay replacing their tyres, which places every road user at greater risk of accidents,” he said.
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Consumers, particularly those who use taxis, could be faced with even higher transport costs, the Tyre Importers Association of South Africa warned this week.
This comes after Continental, Bridgestone, Goodyear, and Sumitomo - collectively known as the South African Tyre Manufacturers Conference - applied to have additional duties imposed on tyres imported from China.
The Tyre Importers Association said if the application was successful, it would have a material impact on the price of tyres across the board, and that it was therefore opposing the application to the International Trade Administration Commission to impose additional duties of between 8 and 69% on passenger, taxi, bus and truck vehicle tyres imported from China.
Charl de Villiers the chairperson of the Tyre Importers Association said the application for duties was absurd since the applicants collectively imported 80% of the tyres they sold. .
“Even more concerning is that vehicle owners, when faced with such dramatic cost increases, may trade down to second hand or illicit tyres, or simply delay replacing their tyres, which places every road user at greater risk of accidents,” he said.
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Price hikes see SA consumers buying less – and doing all their shopping under one roof
"With inflation at 13-year highs, the Reserve Bank hiking interest rates by 0.75 basis points, low economic growth and high joblessness, the consumer is under enormous pressure," said Professor Carel van Aardt, research director at the BMR, in a statement on Monday.
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Beware these new hijacking trends in South Africa
Beware these new hijacking trends in South Africa
Criminal syndicates are changing the way they hijack victims forcing everyday South Africans to be more aware of their surroundings.
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Police blew R102 million on spy equipment they can’t use
Police blew R102 million on spy equipment they can’t use
The police minister failed to get the necessary authorisation to possess the equipment on two separate occasions, but now progress is being made.
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Actually not new news ...
Unscrupulous Eskom staff and contractors are stealing the state-owned power utility dry, and cable theft forces it to spend about R2 billion every year replacing stolen cables.
An Eskom spokesperson told MyBroadband that the utility also tracks cable theft incidents monthly, saying that “the trends are unrelenting and commensurate to the South African crime landscape”.
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Unscrupulous Eskom staff and contractors are stealing the state-owned power utility dry, and cable theft forces it to spend about R2 billion every year replacing stolen cables.
An Eskom spokesperson told MyBroadband that the utility also tracks cable theft incidents monthly, saying that “the trends are unrelenting and commensurate to the South African crime landscape”.
People are stealing Eskom dry
Theft and corruption have been rife at Eskom and slow progress is being made in bringing perpetrators to book.
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New Zealand moves ahead with tobacco laws to create a smoke free future
New Zealand moves ahead with tobacco laws to create a smoke free future
With the first reading of a new bill in parliament today, Aotearoa New Zealand’s plan to be smoke-free by 2025 takes another tangible step forward.
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This kind of thing is actually not news. It's common practice...lol
And then we have this. So you do shady deals, if you get caught, just sue the government and say they're not allowed to investigate your shady deals...
Telkom sues Ramaphosa to stop investigation into shady deals
Telkom has filed High Court papers to block President Cyril Ramaphosa’s directive to the Special Investigating Unit to investigate old dodgy deals at the company — including one where it made a R7 billion loss.
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I'm not sure of whether to laugh, cry or get angry at that
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