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Old 03-10-2015, 08:53 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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with law to better reflect the demographics of South Africa:

Eskom must shed 1 081 white engineers | News24

More detail here:

Eskom has too many white employees

"“In Eskom’s case it may, however, aggravate the technical skills loss. The majority of Eskom’s power stations are located in Mpumalanga. In this province, black Africans constitute 90.8% of the total population,” it said.

Assuming 1,000 persons are working at a power station, it would mean that, of them, only 92 may be white, coloured or Indian South Africans.

In Limpopo, where new power stations such as Medupi are located, 95.4% of the total population are black Africans. In this case, only 46 employees per 1,000 employees may be coloured, white and Indian employees."


This while Eskom has had to impose rolling blackouts:

South Africa's Eskom imposes second day of rolling blackouts | Reuters

This does not seem likely to end well.
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Old 03-10-2015, 08:55 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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No need to hire people who actually knows how to do the work. Let's give the job to someone just because of the color of their skin. That sounds better.
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Old 03-10-2015, 10:17 PM
 
Location: USA
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with law to better reflect the demographics of South Africa:

Eskom must shed 1 081 white engineers | News24

More detail here:

Eskom has too many white employees

"“In Eskom’s case it may, however, aggravate the technical skills loss. The majority of Eskom’s power stations are located in Mpumalanga. In this province, black Africans constitute 90.8% of the total population,” it said.

Assuming 1,000 persons are working at a power station, it would mean that, of them, only 92 may be white, coloured or Indian South Africans.

In Limpopo, where new power stations such as Medupi are located, 95.4% of the total population are black Africans. In this case, only 46 employees per 1,000 employees may be coloured, white and Indian employees."


This while Eskom has had to impose rolling blackouts:

South Africa's Eskom imposes second day of rolling blackouts | Reuters

This does not seem likely to end well.
"only 46 employees per 1,000 employees may be coloured, white and Indian employees"

So they group Whites with coloureds and Indians in SA. Thats messed up...I think
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Old 03-10-2015, 10:30 PM
 
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Likely they will have no problem going to other countries wanting such skilled workers. Their loss. in the end .
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Old 03-10-2015, 11:34 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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with law to better reflect the demographics of South Africa:

Eskom must shed 1 081 white engineers | News24

More detail here:

Eskom has too many white employees

"“In Eskom’s case it may, however, aggravate the technical skills loss. The majority of Eskom’s power stations are located in Mpumalanga. In this province, black Africans constitute 90.8% of the total population,” it said.

Assuming 1,000 persons are working at a power station, it would mean that, of them, only 92 may be white, coloured or Indian South Africans.

In Limpopo, where new power stations such as Medupi are located, 95.4% of the total population are black Africans. In this case, only 46 employees per 1,000 employees may be coloured, white and Indian employees."


This while Eskom has had to impose rolling blackouts:

South Africa's Eskom imposes second day of rolling blackouts | Reuters

This does not seem likely to end well.
time to invest in backup generators.

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I think you are on the wrong forum. This isn't Stormfront. Everyone makes mistakes every now and then just make sure next time you are on the right forum.
because citing reuters news articles is RACIST
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Old 03-11-2015, 12:10 AM
 
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South Africa will end up like Rhodesia.
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Old 03-11-2015, 12:38 AM
 
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South Africa will end up like Rhodesia.
There's no such place as Rhodesia, nor should there never have been.

In any case, this is the cost of holding onto apartheid too long and not sharing power earlier.
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Old 03-11-2015, 12:41 AM
 
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There's no such place as Rhodesia, nor should there never have been.

In any case, this is the cost of holding onto apartheid too long and not sharing power earlier.
Rhodesia bloomed.

Zimbabwe starves.

My choice of where to live would be simple.
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Old 03-11-2015, 06:20 AM
 
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No need to hire people who actually knows how to do the work. Let's give the job to someone just because of the color of their skin. That sounds better.
no different that the United States
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Old 03-11-2015, 07:13 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Black power will lead to blackouts or whiteouts depending on your perspective I guess.
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