Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said on Friday the group had not been approached but had volunteered their skills.
“It’s different people, with different skills. Eskom will look at their CVs individually and make a decision if their particular skills are needed,” he said.“It is important to state this was not an initiative by Eskom. It was a group of people who recently held a meeting. One of them kept a register of those who attended and sent it to Eskom together with this offer to help come back and contribute if they are needed for anything,” said Mantshantsha.
“We welcome all those who have specialist skills and wish to state that none of them will be paid, none of them will have a contract, regardless of their gender and race,” he told TimesLIVE. Mantshantsha rubbished social media allegations that Eskom had approached white men to rescue the entity, saying it had received offers of assistance from people from all walks of life with different skill sets.
The decline of a country is when it operate backyard style business. Volunteer for free what the fits those thousands working there doing ,if not playing marbles for wage .disgusting clearly unskilled authorities with mouths big as they pockets
The new CEO reaches out & just like that we'll come & for free nogals. Anyone who tells me that Eskom was at it best before 1994 has obviously not seen how much growth in development the new SA has added since 1994. Pre-94 Eskom kept lights on with rolling blackouts in townships
Also the group of Artisan,Engineers,Technicians,IT that they where retrench in 2017 to 2019 they will like to come and volunteer to help rebuild Eskom for free
Patriotism at its highest form, but up!
Theres no free lunch here, dont take us for fool Mr, we watching you cheerleading them back into the system. All of them are white? watch the space.
So the racists are coming back, to takeover the Eskom
They are qualified in driving past 1000 homes to connect 1.
What have we got to loose by letting them try fix something that’s broken and do it for free? I don’t care if the engineers/artisans are bright purple if they can end load shedding I’m all in
This is bit like bringing Cuban doctors to help out here , when we have unemployed doctors of our own .
I will tell you why for free. Once component people are working there they will expose all the corrupt incompetent idiots that was 'working ' at eskom. It will be a huge embarrassment for the cAncer. That's for free.
This season of South Africa and plot development!
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder LiberalismIsAMentalDisease RetiredEngineers PoliticalCorrectnessKills
The MYANC are pushing for their CORRUPT Russian nuclear deal. Will be a CovidCorruptionSA deal?
Funny that not one comment as actually factual.... These so called white engineers were all retrenched to make space for BEE.... They were not given time to train anyone, and if they did, it wad tossed out with them...
Siyabonga bantu abadala Jehova anibusise.
This article is gonna turn into a race issue and 1652 history as usual
Why are people beset by such negativity
Hope they don't kill him.
Some feel the need to do something for nothing, whilst the majority there feel the need to nothing for something plus bonuses
Weren't they part of the problem. Eskom deteriorated under their watch. Now they want to finish it off.
LevyMakwala This angle is BS
LevyMakwala 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fucking lies
Thank you! Sorely needed expertise.
Wonderful news for taking back was has been taken from us!
That’s why 🤷🏼♂️.
Please accept his offer it could save South Africans a lot of Tax money
I wonder if all those accounts are real people. Or it's just a few people controlling the narrative. Not all white folks are racists also, not all black folks are racists. A few racists in each race group is trying to turn everyone rogue.
And right on cue, there's BlackExcellence whining like stuck pigs about white people. So predictable.
'I don't care whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice.'
They are not engineers they are mostly artisans.. Id appreciate them more if they were to help our FET colleges to train more artisans...
Oh no.....white people?
Lots of comments failing racial mathematics - for every 1 'white' professional there are 9 'non-white' - what exactly is the problem? That they may achieve more than the majority did because it should never have been about race❓❓❗️🤷🏽♂️
They must Stayathome there's young capable engineers to do the job
Sad thing is these engineers were in place and committed at one time. They were then worked out and never replaced with engineers with suitable competencies. We see this so often. Rather than set up a system to transfer skills the existing skill set is marginalized and lost!!
Why help a bunch of looters for free🙄
300 m. Consulting bill
All white engineers I’m sure. Why should they help the corrupt cANCer guvmunt fix what they effed up!?
Are they BBBEE compliant?
No qualifications just experience. Most of them have N2 and since they are white they are giving a tittle of engineers. Bsc dololo. Trust me they will never work for free anyway we need to see their qualifications.
Judging by yo posts y'all sounds dumb as hell maybe you're all Zimbabweans immigrants from failed nation,we have d shortage of engineers
And they all happen to be white
😂😂😂😂 really now? For 'free'?
So the new CEO reaches out and just like that we'll come and for free nogals. Anyone who tells me that Eskom was at it best before 1994 has obviously not seen how much growth in development South Africa has added since 1994. The mandate post 94 was to keep light on where needed.
While he was paid h failed now he want to fill for free?
Why for free? They are worth the money if they can fix eskom. Meanwhile parasites in our institutions loot billions
We don't need White engineers to help. Just switch off the power, thanks!
First month free ...... therafter?
It's not because these engineers are patriotic or like the ANC that they are volunteering to assist in fixing the mess at Eskom at no charge; It's simply that they, like the rest of us, hate loadshedding and sitting in the dark!!
sylviaireland So the only way a white engineer can get a job in South Africa with a state owned enterprise is to work for free CyrilRamaphosa tito_mboweni IMFNews jsteenhuisen What are Our_DA doing about this criminality? Pure anti white apartheid. No bailout for SA until BEE gone
Some Blacks are so racist they will rather sit without electricity thn to let whites who actually knows what they are doing help
Not retired, they were retrenched by eskom so that blacks could take over
sylviaireland Eskom_SA you should pay them seeing you are stealing plenty already
THE WHITES ONLY Rejected baba. DA, whites and EFF were talking, in fact making noise about being educated, qualified, for certain portfolios in parliament so that SOEs are run professionally! Do these engineers have Degrees, latest knowledge (tech) in engineering? Hhayi suka
The problem with South Africa and Africa in general is that we like to put incompetent people in positions of power and this will and is destroying this great land, we have qualified ppl we just lack a proper mindset, we lack the conviction of our forefathers
Retired white artisans volunteer to help rebuild Eskom. *I fixed it for you*
Good luck.
Bull shit!!
Queue black twitter outrage. . . .
They will not be allowed to do that because they will disturb the procurement 'processes'
This nonsense ANC really messed up our country selling everything back to the racist
They're there to help sabotage Eskom for privatization excuses.
They not engineers but technicians.
Heroes ✊
25587Liz Great South Africans !
Patriots
Yts please save us😂😂😂
Patriotism at it's best...BIG THANK YOU..
Their time is past. Give new blood. Unless we are missing something.. New ways of looting.....
No handshake?
Artisans I'm sure...
Artisans not Engineers
you want to understand why BBBEE doesn’t work, look no further than Eskom.
Lol must be white 😂🤣😂🤣
I am not buying this one.
You think we are fools, he is pushing a Stellenbosch agenda of taking over our SOE
It means privatization in near!
They want to be close the purse.... Want tenders fir friends... I give up
good deed
I guess they r white... No remorse here..☝
They will reject him, mark my words.
I don't understand some black people that will rather live in a shit hole as long as black people are in charge🙆🏿♂️🤷🏽♂️wtf...
The country is fucked under ANC rule... All SouthAfricans, Black and white I am sure are willing to lend a hand to get things working again..
That was the best line they could think of in this gutter situation wow so sad. White privilege disgusting shit.
As long as their not foreigners because we've seen and experienced enough of their skill. We'd like real engineers with real skill from now onwards
Economic_Rebel They will work for free vele? 🤔🤔🤔Wow 😁
Some of them worked at the utilility with or under 1. koko_matshela 2. The suspicious Anoj 3. The famous Brian Uuuh he e! So they may be coming back to cover their dirty tracks akere! Khelek! Banna oe!
Economic_Rebel White engineers
Half of racist Black twitter got their knickers in a knot here I see.
Economic_Rebel Oh wow such lies. Nothing is more expensive in life than that which is free or cheap
Economic_Rebel Lies
Mahhala hha?
How awesome. There are more good South Africans than bad. Let us, each and every South African build our strength and unity right where we are.
Izzo_trev for free?lying
Nothing is for free in South Africa
They must go to hell
Jamnandas will not be happy about this.
This is heart breaking, do you know how many young people has been trained and released by Eskom yet, they are bringing retired white grade 12 military qualifications back, Honestly speaking with current leadership Ramaphosa MYANC,we must forget about transformation.
Why is Eskom bringing in Volunteers when we paying?
Suka
Whenever there's something for free in life; always ask the question: what's the catch? Because honestly, there's no such thing as free lunch in the savannah.
Wow like what a wow😳😳
Where were they all this time?
Stop laying, its not for free..
This must not be entertained at all, they must enjoy their retirement peaceful and government encouraged all old people to lock themselves in their homes because they're more vulnerable.
Eskom = lies ANC = lies Did I miss anything?
Can I also join them, after all it at no cost to Eskom
guys due to lockdown we forget ESKOM was failing. SAA is almost dead - killed by poor management and / or in fighting . ESKOM is falling due to lack of institutional experience and poor systems management . if they can and truly want to help it can be a good thing
They failed dismally to train the next generation of engineers and now they want to return. Please don’t bring them back. They must have run out of the money they stole at Eskom and now they want to come and help for “free”. There nothing for free in life.
let them share skills and knowledge freely - white people built this, black people are breaking it and no hope of recovery. if we want to succeed as a nation we need to look past skin color and into each others hearts and souls and truly work together as one. we will then succeed
My take Eskom problems are a delibarate exonomic sabotage from foreign contractors.
Our leaders must just tell us the truth, projects build with IMF borrowed money have one thing in common. Delibarate structural defects, resulting in projects delay and escalating costs. Who are main contractors? How many foreign companies worked on modupi and others?
Thank you for helping rebuild Eskom. What an amazing bit of positive news. Thank you, thank you, thank you ❤️❤️❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🙏🙏🙏
The same people to the rescue that the ANC and their followers hate.
Whites neh? .... Blacks won't be able to contain their shit. They'll not only look the gift horse in the mouth, they will chase it away. Probably try to kill it.
Really?😂😂😂
NO YOU DESERVE PAYMENT NO EVEN IF IT CANNOT BE EQUIVALENT OF THE PRICE YOU'D CHARGE IF HIRED TO DO SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR GESTURE THANK YOU!!!
Now thst's commendable!!
There's no FREE service, this Unbundling white brigades are positioning themselves to cover up sabotage rhetoric & future benefits.
Izinyoka
There is NO free lunch. Ever.
Lol bruuuu he did volunteer right Why out for free
Indeed for free
SimonPGrindrod Apartheid 'engineers' who don't have the right qualifications. Nxx!
WMC is thriving under CR17.
These thieves in the ANC won't allow it, doesn't work in their favor, they won't be able to loot.
What we know is that whites will access privileged information Eskom_SA for their friends to loot once more,
I smell a dead rat
I don’t think most of you, judging by your posts, have any idea 💡 f the global shortage of Engineers . Be thankful that here are people sufficiently qualified to solve them be of our biggest problems . Be grateful
Are they BBBBBBBEEEE
Fakes news whites cannot work for free
Nah chief i dont buy it
Can we have their faces they need posters like these
All these artisans are white, we warned you guys about CyrilRamaphosa and his love for white people.
What happened to the international specialists? Just asking
Can u show us their faces, I just want to see something
Unathi_Kwaza That will never happen.. Government will rather waste money ... contracts are given to ppl like the ones who repaired my street light without a torch . They used their cellphones
But they all white
Totally ridiculous idea, the market is to be competitive and open not open to comfort zone old guys who happen to want a hobby......
It might be 'free 'for now but in future it will cost millions if not billions.
Engineers as Practising Engineers(PR Eng) ?
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Why is it about race? It is about skills. They have the skills and charge zero for their services. Why not let them?
I plate lesiboshwa liyakhuluma ayikho into ya mahala
Human beings volunteering to assist our nation to supply electricity to fellow human beings, are we going to politicise and racialist this Our people must have basic Human Rights !
Unathi_Kwaza But will the racists accept the offer oe are they afraid their incompetence will be exposed ( ps- we already know you damn useless)
OneNation70290 Naah. Save it.
Yeah👊👊👊thank you very much... Yho what a sigh of relief. Not some political engineers and crooked accountants who lined up their pockets instead of maintaining assets.. But I still need to know their profiles
Looting has been given new names under the New Dawn: FREE, DONATIONS, FIGHTING CORRUPTION etc. Real thieves are here!
Only Jesus and air are free. Businesses require uninterrupted energy supply, so it is in their interest to rebuild Eskom.
I smell something dodgy here, if they are so concern about Eskom why they could not transfer their skills during their tenure at Eskom (when they were compensated)- now they want to come for FREE as MAHALA HA
Do they have Bsc or? Because I know old age people don't want to study
Wow 🤩
Law 40 - Despise the Free Lunch. - What is offered for free is dangerous—it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation.
The blacks will never allow it.
NicMhlongo It’s not for free, if they gonna steal the money anyway
Show their qualifications, the nation will be shocked
I guess he is White!
It won't be for free.. They were invited by this new ceo! Eskom must advertise posts and these people and others can apply individually, and follow all due processes. We have young unemployed graduates, retired pple can not block young ppl, after blowing up their pensions
There is no free lunch 🤣🤣🤣🤣
There we go again...hardly 3 months in the post...🙆♂️
For Free.. Like free free
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