Ramaphosa transfers responsibility for new power generation to Ramokgopa, pulling plug on Mantashe

A bit late!

It for sure couldńt get worse. Transferring more power to our electicity minister is hopefully, on behalf of the whole country, a step in the right direction. Still however canť understand why our president had to delay the process of a change for so long. Did it really take that long to entangle himself from the tenticles of Mantashe??

NOW that our minister of ESKOM aka Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has a job description, maybe our tax money paying for his over-inflated salary, will amount to something? (Why do I feel this is wishful thinking)! We should probably look forward to more ministers being appointed - like one for Toilet Paper and another for Sewerage Works.

As if this will make a difference. The weakness of the ANC is that no individual has the competence or integrity to take any decent decisions, and get, like all his predecessors, will just toe the party line. NOTHING the ANC touches can be turned around. They have performed the miracle of turning gold into dust.

At last! A realisation that Mantashe is worse than useless and a genuine impediment to any future economic growth. Now all Cyril has to do is duplicate this action with most of the Ministers under his management starting with Foreign Affairs - the latest attempt to brand Israel with genocide in Gaza will go down as a huge error of judgement, however passionately the ANC feels about supporting the Palestinians. The resumption of load shedding was cynically predicted by most South Africans but is still a body blow to those hoping for a better year in 2024.

It sure takes this useless CR to wake up to reality. Andre told him months ago on how to run a profitable business and provided names as well, but all the comrades in cahoots are too busy filling up their monetary retirement accounts to see the true picture. It's a disgrace to look on how the ANC runs this once beautiful country into a downwards crush. There are NOBODY in the government that is capable to fix the disastrous Eskom from collapsing and save us from permanent darkness. But one thing I don't understand is that when it comes to the voting day, the majority that moans and groans, still have the mentality to vote for the ANC..!! But yes, I would love to see what is the IQ rate of the ministers..? Do you need more than one hand to calculate this.?

As usual, Ramaphosa dithers and stumbles around aimlessly until matters reach crisis point. The inept and autocratic Mantashe has cost the country dearly and should have been fired years ago. How is Ramaphosa going to deal with another crisis, ie. Transnet? His dithering lack of action in this regard is also costing billions in lost revenue and massive operational losses, all caused by his insistence on ill qualified cadre deployment in critically important SOE's. It is time for his tenure to end.

Ramakgopa… of the “let’s spend 2 billion in smart meters” for the city of tshwane??? Oh joy, this is going to be fun… Not!

May 2023?? So, if correct, what's happened since then? Furthermore, what's the point of procuring new power sources, if the grid can't support them?

How long does it take? How many blondes to change a light bulb? What is the wavelength of a piece of string? God save South Africa. Do put Uncle Gwede out to pasture please. Does anybody remember the old mantras, the idiotic 'Viva COSATU, Viva ANC, viva SACP'? (Which of course presupposed a real economy and real industry and all the other nice goodies which allow for trade unions and artisans and all the rest, and (once upon a time) allowed for the fantasy of a Communist Party and so on. We seem to be living in a fantasy world, the remnant of ANC struggle nostalgia, and it's long overdue that the sad Old Guard is pensioned off. Viva renewal. Viva. But what worth actually remains in the wake of these old struggle-fogies? What is yet possible? Who knows.