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Eskom going the same route as SAA: Roodt

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2022
  • Efficient Group Chief Economist Dawie Roodt says Eskom is financially and operationally not possible to salvage and will come to the same end as South African Airways (SAA). Among South Africa's deteriorating state-owned enterprises, Eskom has been going through the worst crisis for more than a decade in all of its 99 years in existence. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan last week appointed a new Eskom board with a mandate to steer the entity out of its deep prevailing crisis.
    Meanwhile, the office of the Auditor General yesterday briefed the portfolio committee on Public Enterprises on the audit outcomes of the department and the state-owned entities. The AG reported that there's no alignment between DPE and SOEs, and policy uncertainty has led to the failure of the entities to deliver on their mandate.
    Director and Chief Economist at Efficient Group Dawie Roodt shares more.
    For more news, visit sabcnews.com and also #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.

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  • @seandelarosa1107
    @seandelarosa1107 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Bravo Dawie! One of the few people in this country calling it 100% correct!

  • @roberttomlinson5455
    @roberttomlinson5455 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Well said Dawie!! Thanks for calling a spade a spade.

    • @bertramfuscher
      @bertramfuscher ปีที่แล้ว

      It may have been but imbeciles ran it into the ground through their incompetence.

    • @rinamarx5742
      @rinamarx5742 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BEE

  • @njabulombuyazi5132
    @njabulombuyazi5132 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Love this engagement/debate!!! The interviewer must play devils advocate and push for sound responses. Dawie seems to know his story. Glad they remained respectfull towards each other

    • @rob1045
      @rob1045 ปีที่แล้ว

      She always plays on one side of the spectrum

  • @KS-qf1pn
    @KS-qf1pn ปีที่แล้ว +98

    As a former Eskom engineer, I can say the following:
    Eskom is a prime example of what happens when politicians meddles with a sound business model.
    The current generation plant was under maintained for the past 22 years, and therefore cannot be brought back to the reliability and efficiency seen during the 90,s -2000’s as it will simply cost too much.
    Private equity partners can indeed come aboard, but they will only buy units of the latest power stations, which they will operate by themselves, and will procure fuel (coal) at market parity - prices., which is expensive in any case not to mention the corruption..
    The truth is that cheap or “affordable” energy as suggested by SABC news anchor, will never be possible again given the shortage of coal worldwide, and due to an aged and poorly maintained generation fleet.
    Privatisation will only materialise when the SA government has NO choice left, and when they need to approach the world bank for a loan, PRIVATISATION will then be a prerequisite..
    In the meantime, brace yourselves, this load shedding is only going to get worse, as there is no quick fix to decades of mismanagement..

    • @mikereddell6468
      @mikereddell6468 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly, there should be a ban on exporting all our precious coal, that's what is needed to continue operations at Eskom.... It's not rocket science, yet saboteurs continue "polluting" our Eskom coal supplies, causing damage to the equipment, thereby all these unpredicted "breakdowns" The system is corrupt.... 😬😡

    • @merlegouveris3166
      @merlegouveris3166 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And nobody wants this job now!!!

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What did you witness about tenders for contractors who do major repairs at the power stations? Some people seem to think that the repair crews are a mafia who deliberately do poor repairs to cause further breakdowns and ensure their employment as a form of rent-seeking.

    • @katlegomoatshe1312
      @katlegomoatshe1312 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did Eskom have a business model that provided electricity for ALL South Africans or for some?

    • @merlegouveris3166
      @merlegouveris3166 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@katlegomoatshe1312 doesn't really matter because the high volume of power theft, the culture of non payment by civilians, municipalities and Soe's is beyond any business's ability to trade out of, or supply with the mess ups at kusile and medupi. So normally it would simply require extending the grid
      The model is there. It's just another failure by Inept untrained and corrupt officials and cadres from A to Z.

  • @garyreddy
    @garyreddy ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Agree with Dawie. Politics and cadre deployment is destroying this country.

  • @seth1650
    @seth1650 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This lady keeps contradicting herself...., Well-handled Dawie

  • @andrepotgieter7083
    @andrepotgieter7083 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Now that was an exceptional debate done with respect and awesome professionalism!

    • @geraldolivier3681
      @geraldolivier3681 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Beg to differ. She often talked right past him. He on occasion did the same. Like they were speaking a different language sometimes.

  • @IdeologieUK
    @IdeologieUK ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Watching from the UK it looks like the SABC is a government department as well.

    • @janniemeyer9951
      @janniemeyer9951 ปีที่แล้ว

      For all practical reasons the Broadcaster is controlled by State. Communist based.

    • @IdeologieUK
      @IdeologieUK ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janniemeyer9951 Ja ek dog so! I have to say though that it’s the same here in the UK, as well as the US and a lot of Europe, and for similar reasons - to control the narrative. Let’s be honest though, die SAUK was an apartheid mouthpiece. In my view it’s best to watch state, left and right wing media and then only to start drawing some basic conclusions on the state of the world. The general public has never been so manipulated by the press. 👍

    • @AndreNortonWAM
      @AndreNortonWAM ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Of course it is.

    • @lawrencehenshaw7491
      @lawrencehenshaw7491 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha of course it is. They refused that DSTV do their own South African News channel. They are tri party alliance. Communist Party, Cosato and ANC.

    • @angeliquekleynhans9130
      @angeliquekleynhans9130 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol, you can google for that answer not speculate.

  • @KingLetuba
    @KingLetuba ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I agree with Dawie. A ticket to Cape Town on Safair is around R1500 single while SAA is always more than that even when we pre-pay through bailouts and still we can not afford to fly the State Airline. why do we need an airline that we can not afford to fly as taxpayers. We end up flying the private airlines that we are not even bailing out.

    • @annamariedouglas4874
      @annamariedouglas4874 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      WELL SAID!!

    • @ChristiaanKleynhans
      @ChristiaanKleynhans ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. State companies are still not efficient nothwithstanding the subsidies. Because there are no penalties for bad performance. Jobs are protected and Most people can get away with murder. And that will never change. And corruption will also remain. We have a sindicate mafia from government down to the bottom and that is exactly why thse guys (sorry girls) are protected. And that is why people have to drink laced coffees. Because they push in the wrong direction.

  • @brucethackwell6686
    @brucethackwell6686 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    At last a person, a true South African that tells the truth! Not like the SABC

  • @elmultimediaschoolofartscu3924
    @elmultimediaschoolofartscu3924 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This man is wise, somebody needs to take his advice. I see clearly what he means. We must avoid reaching a point of no return.... There's still time to take advice...

    • @mikereddell6468
      @mikereddell6468 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what Dawie is a Chief Economist, he knows what he is talking about.... The government should completely step aside as one can see that their main goal is to "control", hold onto power and see how they can collect as much money as possible. They cannot show even one "successful story" from day one..... The cANCer must go with immediate effect

  • @kennethdavison6501
    @kennethdavison6501 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    It was great that they had such a hard debate and still maintained composure. No easy questions or answers. I agree that intensifying the activities that got us in trouble will only make it worse

    • @goldenlion647
      @goldenlion647 ปีที่แล้ว

      If they keep the gov. out of it they can solve it, but whilst their cadres are stealing and incompetent Eskom will just collapse and the whole ecomomy will follow.

    • @SeekerGinz
      @SeekerGinz ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah and it is a month later and guess what. Talks about Stage 8 and blackouts today

  • @Shaun47889
    @Shaun47889 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I agreed and believe that Eskom will be the same as SAA and post office!

  • @bhekumzijekwa803
    @bhekumzijekwa803 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Anything that was built before 1994 is either not working in its full capacity or its been temporarily out of order for 30 years or completely non functional Eskom, Railways, SAA, Post Office going the same way

  • @tanyaedwards4574
    @tanyaedwards4574 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This was very interesting and I enjoyed the discussion very much. Sadly though, we can't look back 20 years and think that Eskom is suddenly going to be the glory it once was- 20 years of neglect, need I say more.

  • @peterkemp4235
    @peterkemp4235 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Respect to both......interviewer and interviewee !

  • @jeanmarckayembe3556
    @jeanmarckayembe3556 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I really enjoyed their engagement. Very respectful despite their disagreement

  • @daphneholdway1033
    @daphneholdway1033 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dawie. ROODT my greatest respect for you.

  • @stefangriesel3562
    @stefangriesel3562 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Kind of spoke past each other because no one wants to say the obvious. To solve the Eskom problem, you have to remove the ANC from the equation. Whether by privatization or other means. Maybe we can professionalise Eskom and get it back to what it was but definitely not with the ANC at the helm.

    • @byroncoetzee3173
      @byroncoetzee3173 ปีที่แล้ว

      its not the anc, its the ideology, anc is just the head of it

  • @zamokuhlesibeko2508
    @zamokuhlesibeko2508 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dawwie is speaking the truth

  • @thetower5184
    @thetower5184 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ANC or rather say black political south African leadership just destroy everything as from 1994.😭

  • @gbone7581
    @gbone7581 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
    ― Ronald Reagan

    • @sengamemela3720
      @sengamemela3720 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Glen this is 100% true , as a 4-year-old in 1984 black child I remember experiencing exactly what is depicted by this statement...

    • @Robob0027
      @Robob0027 ปีที่แล้ว

      Almost as bad as the dreaded SA expression "We'll make as plan".

  • @ettiennemaree6966
    @ettiennemaree6966 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    dawie I'm with you on that and not an economist but I get and understand what you saying privatization is the way to go

  • @elizabethnadrau195
    @elizabethnadrau195 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This man really touches the genuine Points.It is a Reality what he says here.You are Right Dawie

    • @picassocube3521
      @picassocube3521 ปีที่แล้ว

      The man has been sent by Ramaphosa's CR17 funders who don't want to be revealed, now they want their payback through our SOEs!

  • @nondumisokunene9279
    @nondumisokunene9279 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    We must also examine the role of illegal connections, and what extent it contributes to the failure of Eskom. Free rides must end, no matter how expensive electricity is.

    • @mikereddell6468
      @mikereddell6468 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So true.... Everywhere one looks, you see these illegal connections 😡 yet, most authorities tend to get the "ostrich syndrome" (head buried in the sand) and don't do a thing to curb the problem in fear of the "backslash" they'll be attracting..... They must do what they are paid to do..... or step aside....

    • @gstar3569
      @gstar3569 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      speaking of "free rides"... maybe the answer is to get rid of the ANC !

    • @nondumisokunene9279
      @nondumisokunene9279 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gstar3569 Agree 100%, the anc corruption will end once we've kicked these daylight robbers out of power. They are drunk with the power and resources they're abusing. They betrayed SA's trust.

    • @piaget1967
      @piaget1967 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree whole heartedly.

    • @piaget1967
      @piaget1967 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are too many illegal connections.sjoe..haibo......when l went to visit my hometown eThekhweni...wow...the proliferation of illegal connections that you can plainly .

  • @kateturner1849
    @kateturner1849 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    She doesn't seem to understand that government money IS TAXPAYER MONEY!

    • @Rvw1408
      @Rvw1408 ปีที่แล้ว

      She is to dumb to realize it

  • @braamhechter5053
    @braamhechter5053 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I hope the lady watch this video afterwards, and realise she COMPLETELY missed the boat on the airline example and apologise to Dawie and the everyone who watched this interview

    • @geraldolivier3681
      @geraldolivier3681 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Agreed totally. Is she politically naive ?. She spoke right passed him. Different language. Roost forgot to mention that Postnet . A private successfull company had long taken over Post Offices core function... She wanted examples. I almost got the feeling she was bordering on obfuscation

  • @bjspretorius
    @bjspretorius ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Eskom can start by having consumers pay their bills directly to Eskom and not through municipalities because that is where the money is disappearing.

    • @raliejansevanrensburg5559
      @raliejansevanrensburg5559 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!

    • @piaget1967
      @piaget1967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Been paying my bill directly to Eskom for the last 30 years

    • @keithkenny4576
      @keithkenny4576 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have said this many times

    • @Robob0027
      @Robob0027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@piaget1967 Then you are lucky to be able to pay directly to Eskom. In Johannesburg we are forced to buy out electricity from City Power as Eskom, by agreement, will not supply power directly to the consumer.. In addition, those of us who are forced to buy from the local municipality also have to pay their mark-up in addition to the amount of increase granted by Nersa. If you have found a way to get around this way of paying and to Eskom directly, then pray divulge it.

    • @blakiwhite5664
      @blakiwhite5664 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eskom had a bout 6 million meters that they supply directly to, the rest of South Africa's meters are 'owned' by municipalities and private contractors which act as one of the middle men between consumer and Eskom. It's just the way it is.

  • @derrickdupreez4209
    @derrickdupreez4209 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I agree with you Mr Roodt. There was a survey done by a private international company hired by the outside investors to do an audit on Eskom and the outcome was that Eskom's debt runs into trillions of rand. It is said in the audit that there is sufficient evidence to take ANC to the ICC and have them locked up for they are unable to redeem their international loans. The situation at Eskom is irredeemable! They are beyond businees rescue! Mr Roodt is correct Eskom will end up the same as SAA!

  • @marlinsanders1551
    @marlinsanders1551 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Why not just say it and say it again: "Get rid of the ANC/SACP/All Trade Unions for ever and start to solve the problems"

    • @wvbosch
      @wvbosch ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cause that won't be true. The problem is NOT the ANC. You heard me right. It is the majority of the SA electorate, something that can't be changed. Only logical advice will be to diversify your risk and start investing outside SA and working towards full immigration soonest. I can't see any other way out, especially when you have kids.

    • @Robob0027
      @Robob0027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wvbosch Not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean "working towards full EMIGRATION i.e. leaving SA to live in another country. IMMIGRATION means to move into a country permanently. I emigrated FROM the UK and immigrated to SA.

    • @jamesmay1900
      @jamesmay1900 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wvbosch My man! You hit the nail on the head. The government, it's contractors and the cable thieves are all SA citizens. We keep blaming the government, it's our people that are doing this to us.

  • @printawayspvr8490
    @printawayspvr8490 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I still have the video where Ramaphosa promised there will never be loadshedding again

  • @w147ik
    @w147ik ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Her understanding (or lack thereof) how the economy works is the perfect explanation why the country is where it is now.

  • @thulanijamesmalinga9497
    @thulanijamesmalinga9497 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    But if all these state enterprises are going down, why keep Gordan as minister. Is he mandated to see the demise of these state enterprises?

    • @shafiyaalgiquadra1105
      @shafiyaalgiquadra1105 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thulani you have hit upon the answer and yet you seem unsure.

    • @guyckvanheerden6428
      @guyckvanheerden6428 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is a communist by his own admission. He has never run a business that has to keep itself afloat and therefore doesn't have a clue what he's doing. His mandate is to keep it chugging along at all costs...except the money is running out.

    • @fransvanschalkwyk3257
      @fransvanschalkwyk3257 ปีที่แล้ว

      He has s communist mindset he is from SACP he want everything to belong to the state simple as that

    • @davedraper5471
      @davedraper5471 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Step 1 in getting SA back on track - get rid of ALL parasitic politicians!

    • @raliejansevanrensburg5559
      @raliejansevanrensburg5559 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most probably! All the cadres have only one aim: ĎESTROY EVERYTHING!!! Terug bos toe!!!! Hulle wil nie die witmense se goeiie handewerk hê nie, want dit maak hulle skaam-kwaad, jaloers en vreesbevange oor hulle eie onvermoë!!!!

  • @normandubowitz1965
    @normandubowitz1965 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dawie. What do brilliant economists know that the ANC does not. .......The inconvenient TRUTH. You also are smart you also have integrity you also have big testicles.We ( those who have reason)' salute your logic and solid common sense.

  • @mustaphaobaray2956
    @mustaphaobaray2956 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thanks, Dawie in total agreement with you as we have a power hungry incompetent government

  • @annaleppert6353
    @annaleppert6353 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Very true they have too many people and not all productive and competent enough to hold their jobs.

  • @FreeThinkersZa
    @FreeThinkersZa ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It can't be fixed because all the experienced people in eskom were made redundant or resigned because of a poor transition process. Red tape screws it up again... Perhaps on purpose, who knows

  • @ehvrupert
    @ehvrupert ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Mooi Dawie. Sys snap nie die konsep van belasting nie.

  • @errol1bong
    @errol1bong ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Out of her depth to understand the big picture -a cultural shortcoming believing that current management is capable under current governance to self-correct is not going to happen and people will start crying soon when we are at Zim levels. And we are already there.

  • @cccmmm1234
    @cccmmm1234 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Dawie you are talking to someone at SABC yet another civil servant!

  • @DMx4839
    @DMx4839 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I loved this interview/debate! Kudos to both Sakinah and Dawie for trying to get to a solution for the incompetence at play within our SOEs. It is possible to provide efficient services, but the current leadership just cannot get it right. So, they must step aside and let others do it! I am tired of paying my hard-earned money for failing utilities!!!

    • @everettjenkinshowoldareyou6132
      @everettjenkinshowoldareyou6132 ปีที่แล้ว

      AS SHE INDICATED IT HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE PAST BRING BACK THE PEOPLE AN ORGANIZATIONS WHO GOT IT TIGHT THAT WOULD BE THE PREVIOUS RULING PARTY AND GOVERNMENT HOW FANTASTIC WILL THAT BE

  • @soniaodendaal4443
    @soniaodendaal4443 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Is it possible that the plan to get rid of de Ruyter has worked exactly as planned? Is it possible that we will now soon see Russian engineers at Eskom’s helm, is that possibly why Mabuza has been a regular visitor to Russia? Or will we soon see Cuban engineers being paid huge salaries to “save” Eskom and certain government officials benefit hugely financially?

    • @chriscoetzer
      @chriscoetzer ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm willing to bet big money that you are 100% correct!

    • @robmoody371
      @robmoody371 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think the infrastructure is too far gone. Probably what we will see is Karpoweship being granted a 20 year plus lease to supply electricity at one enormous cost to the paying citizens

    • @leniederu1809
      @leniederu1809 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robmoody3710

  • @jacqueslombard3829
    @jacqueslombard3829 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mooi
    so Dawie ! Ek is bly dat ek nie die stront moet oor en oor verduidelik nie !

    • @mikereddell6468
      @mikereddell6468 ปีที่แล้ว

      Onthou die slaag syfers..... Hulle sal nóóit verstaan nie... 😉

  • @wietzepost
    @wietzepost ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's not about privatising Eskom. The point is to privatise electricity generation. Let others also supply the wholesale electricity market using the transmission grid. Eskom (as a state-owned entity) can keep generating while competing with private generators. Many countries, including Australia, have shown the way.

    • @charlesugochukwu9283
      @charlesugochukwu9283 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s not the problem.
      You have a very corrupt and incompetent regime in power. Even if you privatize power generation, the corrupt govt will still manage to fumble transmission and distribution. You’d be surprised. The only way out of it is to take the govt out of electricity, or you change the corrupt regime. There’s no middle way.

  • @lehlohonolonzama93
    @lehlohonolonzama93 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    SAA was sold for R50, I wonder how much will Eskom be sold for?🤔🤔🤔

  • @stlouisix3
    @stlouisix3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Dawie Roodt is a fantastic economist 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

    • @stlouisix3
      @stlouisix3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Privatising and de-reguliting everything in South Aa will create 10x levels of economic growth annually. Dawie is constantly correct.
      End all regulations and have capitalist, private businesses own and run it all and the economic growth will be extraordinarily high.

    • @realgenius1402
      @realgenius1402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stlouisix3 What about unemployment?

    • @iforget6940
      @iforget6940 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jobs will be created that's what happens in a deregulated market and less state owend entity's because businesses can compete give everyone a chance let the government only provide safety and inforcement of the law and basic utilities

    • @markmcculloch2570
      @markmcculloch2570 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brick crap. You mad

    • @stlouisix3
      @stlouisix3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@realgenius1402 what about unemployment?🤣😂😅
      I'm clearly not a real genius because that comment appears to me to be virtually entirely devoid of meaning.

  • @user-ez9en7vk2z
    @user-ez9en7vk2z ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Whole SA is going the same route as SAA. Its inevitable...and blame anc incompetent cadres, forced AA & BEE where people are employed not according to skill & merit but on colour & pity. South african deserve this because this is what they voted for every election.

  • @gideonlapidus8996
    @gideonlapidus8996 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    100% the TRUTH by Dawie Roodt

    • @andrepotgieter7083
      @andrepotgieter7083 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are SPOT ON.................

    • @user-ez9en7vk2z
      @user-ez9en7vk2z ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Brick Topp best reply from lowest common denominator. What a well thought out argument you present...your mom must be proud of your intellectual capabilities. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @user-ez9en7vk2z
      @user-ez9en7vk2z ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Brick Topp aaah its always cute when they think they r cleva.
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈🙉🙊

  • @charles5446
    @charles5446 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Perfect axample of how tough it is to explain the problem to unqualified people.. come o guys it's trillions missing.. we not talking about a Mercedes or BMW.. we are decades behind the rest of the world economically, and now after watching this maybe even intellectually

  • @MotionInteractive
    @MotionInteractive ปีที่แล้ว +16

    We need more interviews like this one. Not open mic night filled with propaganda .

  • @heleneroodt9225
    @heleneroodt9225 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    People voting ANC must not complain for any situation. They just get what they voted for.
    Pity all the people suffer.

  • @gbone7581
    @gbone7581 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Who was running ESKOM when it was efficient and who is running it now? Maybe the answer is there?

    • @zinhlelo5042
      @zinhlelo5042 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Expand please. It seems you already have made up your mind.

    • @gerhardvaneeden5615
      @gerhardvaneeden5615 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zinhlelo5042 He's not stating his opinion, he's stating facts. So he can't 'make up his mind', as it's already been made up.
      All the accumulated skill at Eskom was summarily retrenched, without proper training and handover.

  • @KEM22019
    @KEM22019 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I fully agree with Dawie, we must privatise Eskom ASAP.

  • @vincentnaidoo167
    @vincentnaidoo167 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dawie is on the money in every point he makes. Country will not survive in this trajectory

    • @emilemerten6535
      @emilemerten6535 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly! Somebody should make and sell cheap solar panels and sell it to consumers.

  • @riaanhendricks9207
    @riaanhendricks9207 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This journo is way out of her debt. It's embarrassing. Trying to seem "cleva" and actually being clever, are two very different things.

    • @realgenius1402
      @realgenius1402 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you understand that the government employs more people then the private sector, with that said Government annual turnover is around R3 trillion whereas the private sector annual turnover is around R10 trillion, just put that into perspective. So who should carry the unemployment burden? because the private sector is surely not doing it.

    • @riaanhendricks9207
      @riaanhendricks9207 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another "cleva" one that just made up a bullshit comment. I won't even entertain your "genius" because you're clearly from a world where economics doesn't work the same as it does in this world. This is why I believe you're a blatant IDIOT who knows NOTHING about accounting, finance, economics or business. You state that a government has an "annual turnover". Go figure out what is wrong with that statement, NOT SO GENIUS!!!

    • @lukhanyomabutyana1347
      @lukhanyomabutyana1347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sakina is actually smart and she raises some valid concerns that we all should take into consideration. Dawie is also not less intelligent, he is just being disingenuous and not fully transparent about the consequences of privatising SOE's. Sometimes we should focus on what is being said, not who says it.

  • @thebergbok8279
    @thebergbok8279 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hammering on an eggshell door here Dawie. The host is but totally incapable of following your sound business logic for 3 various reasons, which I will not venture into. At least you got her worked up & hot under the collar which might, kick start a few brain cells & enable her to mentally lay the concept of ubuntu at All costs to rest in cotton wool.. RIP. Keep it up .Big fan of yours.
    Ps. Wait until the age of robotics & AI really kicks in & integrates into the labour market. That will be a tough time for everyone both socially & economically.

  • @riaanvantonder5169
    @riaanvantonder5169 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sy weet nie hoe dit werk gloo my

  • @Smart.Ventures
    @Smart.Ventures ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great discussion, but it could have been better if the interviewer could have kept up with Dawie's arguments. She lost the plot a couple of times.

  • @paulhumble8483
    @paulhumble8483 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If 20 Million people could pay Eskom each R40 they would have R800000000 yo sort their issues out , if only

  • @jolo9573
    @jolo9573 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Its simple, ESKOM is finish, competition is great for consumers, GO PRIVATE, more the better! Agee with DAWIE!🏆🏆

    • @realgenius1402
      @realgenius1402 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about unemployment?

    • @montwediontlametseemmanuel1664
      @montwediontlametseemmanuel1664 ปีที่แล้ว

      Give 1 example,

    • @jolo9573
      @jolo9573 ปีที่แล้ว

      SIMPLE, ONLY ONE EXAMPLE, MTN phoned me got a unlimited data deal for a month, for R400, 2 days later vodacome phone me with same deal for R399 a month, competition is great for consumers, they fight for consumers, you consumer can pick and choose where to spend you money, you can only buy you electricity from one provider, they can do what ever they want,you dont have a option! Competition is great for consumers!,🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @katlegomoatshe1312
      @katlegomoatshe1312 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jolo9573 Name one country where privatizing lowered prices....

  • @taniakok4121
    @taniakok4121 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Sakina, the taxpayer doesn't have a choice where their money goes, ask those in command, why they are making stupid decisions?
    Go Dawie, you make sense!!!

  • @realdudevision2746
    @realdudevision2746 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    9:37 Sakina is Dreaming with her eyes open😄 ideology is blinding. 15years since blackouts started
    12:10 I fly SaFair coz they cheaper

  • @AAA-gj3rx
    @AAA-gj3rx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    INTERVIEWER SEES HER JOB GOING DOWN THE DRAIN...

  • @Magicguy13
    @Magicguy13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fantastic truth spoken by Dawie

  • @ricardohendricks1711
    @ricardohendricks1711 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This guy should run the government honestly makes a lot of sense. This lady does not understand privatization = more competition = better prices. Not to mention that of we stabilize the economy gets stronger and inflation goes down

    • @esahm373
      @esahm373 ปีที่แล้ว

      Privatization does not automatically equal more competition. There are monopolies, conglomerates and cartels.

    • @ricardohendricks1711
      @ricardohendricks1711 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@esahm373 I 100% agree with you. But monopolies happen when fair competition is not promoted and I think the government has proven through state capture and corruption that they facilitate this behavior therefore we don't have much options as the ANC is shamefully and blatantly looking the country. Every State owned entity is screwed financially and the tax payer is suffering. Even if they get qualified peeps in, as long as the state dictates the agenda they will hinder these people from doing their jobs. We saw this in Zuma's regime and the trend continues

    • @esahm373
      @esahm373 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ricardohendricks1711 I wonder whether private entities find South Africa a lucrative market to enter, since a huge percentage of the population is unable to pay for electricity. So the market boils down to those who are affluent enough to be part of the upper-middle class and upper-class.
      Now in that scenario, what would happen to those who can't afford it?

    • @ricardohendricks1711
      @ricardohendricks1711 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@esahm373 yes they still do according to investment meetings I have sat in. The problem is the electricity crisis. We are looking at a 30% increase from Eskom? You think people can afford electricity already? No solution is perfect but the way our economy has shrunk since the ANC took over speaks volumes to the fact that they have no clue as to what they are doing. So yes again privatization may swing either way but how can the government still be allowed to operate with autonomy when they are running the country into the ground? We cannot do the same thing and expect different results that is the definition of madness! Keep Eskom as a government entity then and have private investors starting up energy companies to compete with them. You spoke about monopoly earlier on, this is exactly why Eskom can perform so poorly without direct consequences, as they have no competition and nothing to aspire too

  • @theresaburdett1054
    @theresaburdett1054 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    New Zealand is a small country but has 3 independent power suppliers and they are competitive.

  • @robmoody371
    @robmoody371 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unfortunately she did not grasp the point that was being made about a privatised air industry. It is actually sad that so many airlines folded in SA because of the unfair advantages given to SAA and other state owned airlines.

  • @JK0628
    @JK0628 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ANC goverment must go.

  • @dogbox2290
    @dogbox2290 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sorry Sakina you are wrong. Eskom can never never be fixed. You want another example. Telkom. Data prices have come down since privatization. You want to save South Africa adopt the Vietnam model now. Allow the whole country to get involved in saving the country. No investment required from government

    • @realgenius1402
      @realgenius1402 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you understand that the government employs more people then the private sector, with that said Government annual turnover is around R3 trillion whereas the private sector annual turnover is around R10 trillion, just put that into perspective. So who should carry the unemployment burden? because the private sector is surely not doing it.

    • @dogbox2290
      @dogbox2290 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@realgenius1402 Chuckle chuckle. It’s this kind of genius logic that is responsible for the mess we are in. Your boss said in a parliamentary sitting recently that *Government Is Not responsible For Jobs”. “But Rather..... The ENVIRONMENT In Which Businesses Should Thrive”. Simple. Easy.
      Eskom and it’s debt is responsible for consuming 75% of GDP. 🤨. . A power utility should be an asset to a country, providing cheap reliable power. The very least it should contribute to the ficus which is then used to give back to the people. If you were unfortunately born white😢, and decided to take your life’s savings and start a manufacturing company, you will very likely go to jail for 3 years. Yip that’s another one of those ways your government is helping the people get jobs.

  • @bananaboy6555
    @bananaboy6555 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dawie Roodt for President?!!

    • @normandubowitz1965
      @normandubowitz1965 ปีที่แล้ว

      The least minister of finance! .However he is too light for the job and would in any event refuse associating with idiots.

  • @bosaap
    @bosaap ปีที่แล้ว +3

    give it back to the ppl that ran it 22years ago..... then it will be one of the best again.

  • @lenarddurand9833
    @lenarddurand9833 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Is the sabc not in the same boat as eskom - bankrupt??

  • @docdynamix
    @docdynamix ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hello SA has gone the same way as eskom

  • @cobusvanzyl5206
    @cobusvanzyl5206 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There is private sector and then there is cadre private sector.

    • @francoisbezuidenhout4638
      @francoisbezuidenhout4638 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And that is where they want to go....Motsepe, Radebe and Ramaphosa busy with the mother of state captures that will make the Guptas look like sunday school...

  • @isaiahzainebrahim6768
    @isaiahzainebrahim6768 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Same route as SAA, and url only realise this now? Url knew 30 years ago already

  • @charmanemahaluxmivisitwithme
    @charmanemahaluxmivisitwithme ปีที่แล้ว +6

    well informed well said

  • @andriescoetzee4746
    @andriescoetzee4746 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Great video...! . It absolutely sums up the REAL problems in SA..... . SABC keep going, you are contributing soooo much.......

  • @benleroux7571
    @benleroux7571 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What this lady does not understand is that even people who will never fly are now paying through their taxes to subsidize those who do.

  • @joemaritz4744
    @joemaritz4744 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And reality in this discussion is that Dawie will s 💯% Correct ✅

  • @siven283
    @siven283 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Spot on Dawie

  • @abriesteyn6055
    @abriesteyn6055 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    But this is what the world wanted.. And everyone in 94.....

    • @traceyvanhoeflaken3174
      @traceyvanhoeflaken3174 ปีที่แล้ว

      Felt the weight of guilt hanging on our shoulders from our parents that grew up with it . And believed in it . But as young kids growing up in the 60s to to 94 we rebelled against the pass and 6pm time curfew. Couldn't understand why . My father was livid I voted ANC. But now I understand that he saw the destruction that was coming. Uneducated people in power.

    • @nomcebo_nothile
      @nomcebo_nothile ปีที่แล้ว

      @@traceyvanhoeflaken3174 I'm really disappointed in you Ma'am. What you've said now says a lot more about you than the incompetent people that you've criticised. You don't deserve to be called a South African citizen.

  • @deidrescheepers7093
    @deidrescheepers7093 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well said Dawie 👏 The truth hurts but private sector will be able to help .Rather have a option to have electricity then to let it completely go dark.

  • @bridges5659
    @bridges5659 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Eish! It's embarrassing for a journalist NOT to understand common sense. 😔

  • @christinefinniss6263
    @christinefinniss6263 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The taxpayer is paying for SAA and then still paying for tickets. Can’t she get it ?

  • @louisoost80
    @louisoost80 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well said Mnr Roodt.
    It is the same with all government institutions. There is no proper functional state run institutions.

  • @sami_am7860
    @sami_am7860 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dawie needs to be more positive regarding the ANC. They are not that bad. They received the Nobel Prize in Astronomy for 2022 for the feat of being the first group of people able to change a country into a Black Hole.

  • @dikeledijane8186
    @dikeledijane8186 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As long as people are retrenched and became hungry the crime will be skyrocketing

  • @arnoldmeiring7710
    @arnoldmeiring7710 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can the electricity problem be isolated to Eskom only? Is the problem not wider? I.e. municipalities not paying and continue consuming electricity

  • @vusimkhabela5670
    @vusimkhabela5670 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This chap says flying in SA is now cheaper. He must be living in a totally different SA I tell you!!!

    • @cecilmahlaba9369
      @cecilmahlaba9369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I understand what he and sakhina are saying but they are having two different arguments. What he is saying is that at macroeconomic level a priatised SAA is cheaper because a tax payer will no longer foot the bill and the treasury will use the 'bail out' money for other important projects. However he is not hearing Sakhina's argument that flight tickets in general will be more expensive than when it was run by the state. In summary, privatized SAA will cost the fiscus less but the travelling individual more and vise versa.

    • @khulasandethembalethu8428
      @khulasandethembalethu8428 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ddduuudde

    • @gopolanglekoto
      @gopolanglekoto ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cecilmahlaba9369 Then privatized SAA is exactly what we need. Reduce the pressure on the fiscus and us taxpayers.

    • @realgenius1402
      @realgenius1402 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gopolanglekoto But less people will afford to fly.

    • @gopolanglekoto
      @gopolanglekoto ปีที่แล้ว

      @@realgenius1402 Flying is a luxury, it's not a basic human right type of thing. There are people who are born and die without ever getting on a plane. Also, poor people don't fly, it's always Middle Class and above who use planes for leisure or business travel. So I don't get this attachment to SAA which is putting pressure on all of us.

  • @KingLetuba
    @KingLetuba ปีที่แล้ว +2

    South Africa a country of many contradictions. Eskom was the best Utility run company over 20 years ago. If we say we need to fix it, should the start not be to find the best people like Eskom had over 20 years ago? Eskom needs to run like a private company on behalf of the State so corrupt politicians and their buddies stay away from the cookie jar.

  • @supermanonemillion7222
    @supermanonemillion7222 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *This is painful to hear soon SA will be destroyed' ANC should be removed from power DA must take over to save SA citizens*

  • @andrewworrall4302
    @andrewworrall4302 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We need the private sector to create competition, which brings prices down. If you have a monopoly, the price will be high. Don't they get that? It's the basics of economics

  • @denisepeel9918
    @denisepeel9918 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dawie! Sy verstaan nie.

  • @tibbydudeza
    @tibbydudeza ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SABC - still his masters (ANC) voice.

  • @JK0628
    @JK0628 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Get rid of ANC goverment and we can build and repair, keep ANC is power and the country will go down hill more and more.

  • @tinasutton4245
    @tinasutton4245 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, look at our Post Offices, we don't even know where our mail has gone to.

  • @EclecticRebel63
    @EclecticRebel63 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Morning Live, PLEASE interview Desmund Bernardo from OODEZZ. You are correct about the political interference being the problem. OODEZZ has a 7 point plan that you will love 'coz I can see where you are going with this........

  • @Bruingebak
    @Bruingebak ปีที่แล้ว +4

    13:35 Forgive her Dawie, she's not an economist, but just a journalist.

  • @khathurandela737
    @khathurandela737 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a lot of emotions here and talking past each other.

  • @brandenwolmarans
    @brandenwolmarans ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What company delivered your last parcel? Who came to your house when you last felt threatened the police or a private security company? Did you Fly SAA to Cape Town of Flysafair perhaps Airlink? Is it transnet trains used to transport goods from Durban harbor to stock you local Shoprite or a private logistics company?

    • @sengamemela3720
      @sengamemela3720 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eskom represents the secondary sector that uses mineral resources from the primary sector to produce electricity for all at no profit .You are just talking about the tertiary sector ...Sakina is more concerned about the means of production in the hands of business people who are only obsessed with profit...

    • @sengamemela3720
      @sengamemela3720 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How many people in SA can afford these private services you are talking about ...which country do you live in???.

    • @brandenwolmarans
      @brandenwolmarans ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sengamemela3720 mismanagement leads to more joblessness which leads to more people not being able to afford it... furthermore if your taxes are lowered due to not having to bail SOEs you should be able to pay the difference to private companies which in turn leads to competition at fair prices... Furthermore Eskom's biggest client board is the heavy industries which are slowly breaking away in self sustainability... So who is going to pay for ANC promises in exchange for votes ie. Free electricity... A problem that I do see with the private sector is they all sit around the same fire, take SA banks for insurance... they all screw us over but one gives you better rent at a cost of greater banking costs. And also with private sector one can not necessarily control the wealth gained by the private sector to be reinvested locally... But hey if you want to trust your government that has mismanagement all government assets till thus far thats your decision