A Cabinet committee is meeting urgently on Wednesday, deliberating on the crises at Eskom after the power utility plunged the country into Stage 6 load shedding on Tuesday.
"But despite it being under public enterprises, government as a whole has gone the extra mile [by] instituting a supplementary programme to make up for the shortcomings at Eskom. We [as government] are actually implementing the supplementary programme aggressively, but the more we implement it, the worse Eskom becomes. What do I do with that?" said Mantashe.
The minister confirmed that he was speaking to News24 from the sidelines of the Cabinet committee meeting.Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told News24 that President Cyril Ramaphosa was attending the meeting.The Presidency said Ramaphosa returned to the country from the G7 summit in Germany on Tuesday morning. He was immediately roped into a briefing about ongoing labour disputes at Eskom, which resulted in the country being plunged into darkness, Ramaphosa's office said.
This wildcat strike, combined with unplanned breakdowns, plunged the country into stage 6 load shedding for the second time in the history of rotational power cuts.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Can we all stop our denial - a modern sophisticated economy is beyond the ANC’s ability to manage!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Hawks are needed, and Police Stationed at every Generator
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Waaaahh ramaphosa didn't even discuss at length in that meeting with mantash, mantash wasn't included in the energy discussion with de ruyter and gordhan, yaah funny stuff ramaphosa, funny stuff
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Oh shame when will this ...... government accept responsibility for this chaos in South Africa? Guess never
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Who is responsible for eskom crisis
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It took the cabinet 14 year's to meet about the eskom disater? Please,,, no rush... 😂🤣😅
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Tipical!!!!! Not important enough. 'Comrades' have different interests these days.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Really. What support has he or the ANC given Eskom I'm surprised that the current CEO has made it this long. He is one man battling non stop corruption in his organization. If not for his leadership we would have been in complete darkness already 🥺
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Time to vote for another party. This one gave us potholes, loadshedding, looting, lockdowns, bans on smokes and drinks, less jobs, state capture, etc. etc. etc.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter After Andre de Ruyter plunged the country into stage 6! Eskom is not a conscious being.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Yes all your fault ANC
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 could end SA Blackout stage 4 (4GW) in 3 months, with $4b of Grid quality 24/7 Solar, and eliminate stage 8 in 6months Instead he is proposing keeping blackouts for 18 years to put in $2.5GW of Nuclear for $23B & 250Mw for $14B - for ANC theft purposes
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Waste of time - he ANC want to spend $37B on nuclear and powerships .. so they can eat from the trough over the next 18 years - instead of spending $4B on 24/7 grid quality Solar (aka Rwanda) to eliminate loadsheding for good in 3 months !! FACT
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Please consider the poor example being set if Eskom workers are allowed to break the law and hold the country to ransom. It’s flippen hard with stage 6 but what further damage will giving in to unreasonable demands do to Eskom & SA economy? Where’s the army used in COVID now?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter The fact that he doesn’t know it is his fault only shows his incompetence
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JKwritingz QaanitahHunter The ANC. The party of corruption, crime and cabinet meetings.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 CyrilRamaphosa It is not unfair to blame the ruling party for your dismal failure to keep our power utility in good condition. Your cadres looted and ran it into the ground. This is on you and all your cronies. Being accountable is an impossible ask for ANC!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter If Eskom has sufficient power why were so many areas out for 6 hrs plus? Back to pre school for some, please ?!!!!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter How about you approved the IPP’s years ago! Work together with your fellow colleagues in various departments and sort it out! I know it’s difficult, but give it a try! GwedeMantashe1
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Vote ANC they said...
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter You are the bloody state. Eskom is state owned! Government is solely to blame even more the cANCer!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter All this government does is talk stories
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Our obsession with green power while the west is burning coal at record highs but telling us not to do the same is just insane. Gas plants should be springing up left right and centre, coal IPPs should get a cut of the pie
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter MANTASHE YOU NEED TO STEP ASIDE SIR ….get a wheelchair and move to an OLDAGE HOME SIR
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter The monkeys broke it and now looking for somebody else to blame..... 3-6-9 the goose drank wine...
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It is very fair ⚡⚡⚡
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter We will get used to it. It will also pass.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Who cancel the national shut down that was going to happen weeks ago. I think that the only thing we need now. Since the petrol is going up again
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Eskom employees suffered a lot from this cadres deployments. They lost their bonuses now their salaries nd benefits while these cadres are chowing eskom money
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Yes we can blame you because you have not speeded up private electricity production....you have tried everything you can to stop and slow it down. If laws had made it possible a decade or more ago there would be no loadshedding
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter And that my friend is freedom chatter...so know which clause are you on? While at it don't forget to discuss about StateCaptureReport AwaboshweAmasela
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter When a party moves away from people they get lost in the mist midst of real issues South African face and always get pre occupied by killing each ather. And destroying each other's characters in the name of renewal and there after Phala phala comes out and it is ignored
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Nomvula, wants cabinet to report to Luthuli House first before they can make deliberations....didn't they get the memo the likes of uncle Gwede? Enghumbhini
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Useless bunch of fucken idiots at eskom ever kry jou ry deruyter
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Hebanna, who must be blamed then? The birds?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Heban, who must be blame then? The birds?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Grow a backbone and get lost from SA politics. Your “emergency power karpowership “ deal is a disaster and 2 years late. So. It is your portfolio and your problem. Accountability !!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter That cabinet cannot organise a pissup in a brewery. Don’t expect much 🍌🍌🍌
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Moegoe 🤌🏼💩☠️
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter He need to deflate first🎃
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter If the parliament was serious in finding a permanent solution to the problem of Eskom, they would have stop pointing fingers to each other and work together to fight this loadshedding issue.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter The truth is you are blamed by DA and WMC, and GwedeMantashe1 you know what they want to do with Eskom, cinga tata. PhalaPhalaFarmGate
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Sorry ANC government, who is to blame? No one but you. If y'all took responsibility, we would not be in the situation we are in... Unfair, my foot!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter From Liberators to Deliberators🚮🚮
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter So what do they achieve by an urgent meeting? Stuff their faces? Get paid extra because it is not scheduled? There will come no tangible solution and execution from that meeting. They are just not capable. And yes, Mantashe, it is your fault. You are the minister.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter EMBISCILES MEETING TO DISCUSS THE DISASTER THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR AT ESKOM. ESKOM WAS A TOP ENERGY COMPANY IN 1996 AND NOW IT IS COLLAPSING AFTER 22 YEARS OF MISMANAGEMENT BY THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION NAMELY THE ANC IN GOVERNMENT.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter We should rather take lessons AS A COUNTRY on everything happening right now, Enyobeni, Eskom crisis etc. To blame will not assist, whether the cat is black or grey should not b our focus. We should acknowledge that we have serious problems and we need solutions as in yesterday.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter The buck stops with you, no one else. Are you not the Minister of mineral resources and energy?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Mantashe must go !
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 grow a pair and take responsibility for your collective mess MYANC
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Shame, cry me a river!!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter They just went for the snacks
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter To be an ANC politician. Never any blame, never responsible for the departments they lead, why does South Africa have a government 🤷🏻
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter We cannot have one entity providing the entire Republic with power... They must learn SUPPLY & DEMAND. During apartheid they kept building more power plants to meet the demand, why not do the same thing or invest in different types of energy sources?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Akahambe fire him
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 28 years to fix this kak. It’s unfair for the citizens. Anc government is the only ones to blame.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Who do you blame then Mr Minister? Is it the workers of Eskom who you will be scared to even blame? That is the issue...no accountability is the taken by anyone of these Ministers! Pass the buck is what you guys love doing. Take on responsibility and do something about it!!!!!!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Who else then? ANC stood by while the SOE'S were being plundered
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Where's Pinnochio? Why isn't he here dressed up in his military camouflage as per Coronafest? He should be protecting the state assets no?😂😂😂
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Hopefully this includes the immediate dismissal of GwedeMantashe and the arrest of IrvinJim for terrorist action and incitement to public violence. Treasonous rubbish
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Lol. All he has to do is give the go-ahead for new plants to be built, and allow people to feed power into the grid. That's it. Instead he chooses to be a coward
Annx4 JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 CyrilRamaphosa ANC is running the country. Whatever goes wrong in SA,the ANC should be kept liable.Simple.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 1. Fire this useless minister. 2. Allow IPP'S to come online to supplement power shortages 3. Dismantle all labour unions for now. The country can't be held to economic ransom by unpatriotic workers
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter This useless cabinet they always have meeting during loadsheding but when theres no loadshedding no meetings and their meeting is nothing nje just wasting tax payers money bcos theres no single solution have been made from their meetings
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter dronkgat nai
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JKwritingz QaanitahHunter A buck of clowns with no expertise to have a meeting - meet about what sort the krap out
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Suppose it was Jan van Riebeck's fault, his Gov. & political party installed the comrades at Eskom, was also Jan van Riebeck or maybe Verwoed who gave the Gupta's citizenship & assistance to capture Eskom & other SOE's, never the current Gov. they found Eskom in present status?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Please somebody ask this man to retire pleeeeeeeseeeeee can he go and play with his grandchildren. My mental state can’t take it. Even Covid did not want him please retire in peace
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Inadequate, incompetent, irresponsible, irrational, delusional, greedy, corrupt and criminal - are just some adjectives to describe these buffoons Mantashe, Gordhan, Ramaphosa and the MYANC government. You have tied the hands of Eskom & SA so there are no alternatives
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter If anyone in this country thinks that even if this corrupt government is voted out they will vacate parliament live in la la land. You never going to get your country back!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter And Petrol Price ? ParliamentofRSA It is also need URGENT attention. If is beyond you then NO one must state vehicles. We ALL feel it . NO CONVOYS INCLUDING CYRIL
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Will be more talk and zero action.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Reason for loadshedding due to line loss. Why line loss, that every minister knows but they are just protecting vote bank.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter You should all grow up and take some accountability. When there are REAL, serious issues affecting the country you all whine and say, its not my fault, its not our problem, blah blah blah blah. Grow up you are in charge, this is a country on its knees not a kindergarten
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It's unfair What's unfair is cabinet with generators..
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Another investigation commission
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 you are responsible for this mess!!! The deterioration of Eskom happened under you and all the ANC cronies!!! You should resign
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Government is in charge of Eskom. Take responsibility! Sort the drama out!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It is fair because it is based on facts you wannebe of a deployed anc cader
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter He has to go
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter To deliberate and agree to carry on doing fuck all to solve the problems. 20 years and still completely useless. Nothing has gotten better except the scheduling of shitty half assed services. Start firing, reducing overheads, no more ridiculous bonuses for FAILING at your jobs.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 'What should I do with Eskom as mineral resources&energy minister?The power utility is a matter under public enterprises'. The fact that he's asking this Q which in his mind is rhetorical is terrifying & a shining example of Government's absolute incompetence
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter VoetesekGwede VoetsekANC
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It's unfair to blame you as an individual. However, it's fair to blame you as a collective. That has been the ANCs modus operandi since its inception. The state of ESKOM is like this because of your corrupt ANC. CR17 said in front of the nation that the ANC is accused No. 1.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter How can the very people that created the problem, meet to discuss solving same problem.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Don't sleep with the union's! It's your own mess and your own voters!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Can they also schedule an emergency meeting to get rid of all the geriatrics in cabinet?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Must we, the citizens be blamed
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter just another day at the office
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Who must we blame? You are the minister of energy with NO PLANS to add capacity and the government is in charge to protect utilities. The same as July last year - you are sleeping on the job.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Its you gwede with $4m PhalaPhalaGate faction. You guys removed Koko and deployed incompetent people recommended by your handlers. When Zuma was about to go nucleur to address energy crisis, you guys and your handlers disguised as civil society went to court to block it.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It is the anc fault that eskom is fucked. U have only destroyed south africs while in government.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Then who must we blame ... thevtax paying citizens or the lawless employees ? Voetsek man
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It was only fair when you were blaming Zuma... feel it..it is here 😂😂😂😂
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Useless lot... 🤮 VoetsekANC VoetsekCyril
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter You must be fired ntate,finish!
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Always in Denial .. These Cadres go on special training on how to DENY everything GwedeMantashe1 Step down if you cant do your job. Its not like its the first time Loadshedding has occured Its been going on for 10 years now.Get off your Tall Horse and take Resposibilty.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter These souls have been meeting for 28 years. No result or any improvement. Complete waste of time and our money.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter Useless naaiers
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter These idiots/ fools/ thieves/ liars, have been meeting since 2008 & NOTHING has come of it! Mantashe the TellyTubby just wants Greek gas ships so cadres can make money
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter And who must be blamed. The citizens? PhalaphalaFarmgate
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter MYANC government and people abdicating taking responsibility. Who must be blamed if the government sees nothing wrong with loadshedding?
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 'The minister confirmed that he was speaking to News24 from the sidelines of the Cabinet committee meeting' - the 'award-winning' journalism R75 can buy nowadays 😂😂🤡
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter A cabinet full of obese tsotsi's like GwedeMantashe1...the very people who created this problem! Crooks VoetsekANC
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter GwedeMantashe1 the ANC has destroyed Eskom. Yes it is your fault.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter If memory serves me , the ANC have been control the past 25 years and the ministry has been quite obstructive GwedeMantashe1
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter There it is the old fossil trying to shift the blame elsewhere!! He is one of the main reasons why we still have loadshedding!! I wish this fossil can die out like the other fossil fuels
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JKwritingz QaanitahHunter 'Captains' of a sinking ship. Just go! New crew needed urgently.
JKwritingz QaanitahHunter It's amazing that the cabinet thinks South Africans have infinite patience on this nonsense.
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