This echoed de Ruyter’s input at a recent Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) briefing, where de Ruyter directed all questions about the politicians’ identities to Gordhan and Mufamadi. Make sense of the climate crisis Hear weekly from the biggest climate reporting division in Africa, reporting stories that concern you, your future and your environment.

Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom by De Ruyter

The author is analytical and logical, his arguments, whether you believe them or not, are sound. This will help readers from any political orientation to at least sympathise with his worldviews and approaches because he substantiates it with facts and reasoning.Truth to power is not a book that I think warrants a rating. So, I will shoot right straight to my impression of its contents. I commend him for his bravery and thoroughly enjoyed the detailed accounts of his 3 years at the beleaguered Eskom. The publishers told News24, that they had sold 16 444 copies in its first week, breaking the record set by Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers. WARNING: DO NOT SHARE PDF VERSION OF BOOK

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Eventually Bruce Moyo, the cluster manager for the region, took me to the storeroom, and showed me some kneepads that workers use when performing tasks like welding and cleaning the insides of pipes, chimneys and other areas at power stations. Meanwhile, there were a few small victories, but they often led to the opening of new fronts in the ongoing war. For instance, a unit manager from the Komati power station enormously improves her plant’s Energy Availability Factor or EAF, the key metric which shows the percentage of rated capacity that the plant supplies to the grid. But she soon receives death threats because her changes mean less spending on maintenance and parts, thereby enraging the criminals that feed off Eskom. I was indeed the inadvertent Tony Soprano of the power industry.” Extracted from Truth to Power by André de Ruyter, out now. No amount of books Andre de Ruyter will make believe him. The man was not sent @Eskom_SA to police the entity. He was appointed there to make sure the county has enough electricity Following Mantashe’s speech, Creamer asked him if he considered this a responsible statement to make. Unrepentant, and in a combative mood, Mantashe doubled down and reiterated the claim. Apart from conflating the party and the state, it was an outrageous statement for a minister to make. If he had been minister of family planning, he could maybe have hidden behind ignorance of the energy portfolio. But this was the minister of energy himself, effectively accusing Eskom management, and by implication me, of high treason. While Mantashe has never developed a reputation for diplomacy, this accusation plumbed new depths of disingenuous diversion from the repeated failings of his own department to come to grips with the energy crisis.He remains keenly interested in synchronising economic growth, job creation and environmental benefits through a just energy transition. De Ruyter’s accounts of the attempt to bug his car and later, to kill him with cyanide, are now well-known, but the meat of his book is the insight it offers into the Eskom crisis and our wider decline. South Africa is Eskom writ large.

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ALSO READ: Hero or opportunist? Mixed views on Andre de Ruyter tell-all book ANDRE DE RUYTER BOOKS MAKES WHOPPING SALESBut at least this much was clear: while the Gupta family had been the shark swimming in the murky waters of state capture, the much smaller piranhas were feasting on Eskom’s flesh. A visit to Kriel power station in Mpumalanga would also cast a harsh light on our procurement woes. When I arrived, I was greeted by an all too frequent sight. Rubbish lying everywhere, lawn not mowed, windows broken. ‘How does your house look?’ I asked the managers. ‘If you have a broken window there, do you also just leave it?’ He also said that mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe was ‘territorial’ over the political sphere and that Gorhan was competent but hampered by loyalty to the ANC. Any copying or distribution of a pirated ebook, or any forwarding of a link to the pirated ebook, is unlawful. We will take legal action against individuals who are circulating pirated copies, which may include criminal complaints once we have collected all the necessary information.” ANDRE DE RUYTER RESPONDS Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, published by Penguin Random House SA (PRHSA), has been two years in the making and was kept top-secret until it hit the shelves on Sunday.