André de Ruyter says Eskom is unfixable

Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says Eskom ’s glory days are long gone and that people should forget about affordable electricity that is always available.

De Ruyter said he failed because Eskom is not fixable in its current form. He added that the utility cannot be resurrected to its former glory. However, when he took the helm, De Ruyter encountered numerous operational and financial issues. These included non-paying customers, like municipalities refusing to pay.These comments align with De Ruyter’s previous warning that South Africans must abandon their nostalgia for when Eskom produced cheap, always-available power.De Ruyter added that Eskom will be restructured and unbundled into three divisions — generation, transmission, and distribution.

This means the private sector will be able to supply electricity to South Africa more efficiently and cheaply than Eskom currently does. He said Eskom is essentially being privatised, but not through official government policy. Instead, the private sector is simply generating its own electricity. Building a national electricity network is very costly and time-consuming, and this is where a state utility makes sense.

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