Yup. Also, you don’t plan to emigrate overnight. He may well have asked to leave a month earlier, and on the way out, he tossed another Molotov cocktail through the window of the establishment.
O yes, they did it because of the interview:
See the link there.
As De Ruyter said in the interview, he is leaving for his own safety.
There are some seriously bad actors operating in SA with impunity.
He must leave.
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I don’t see it. They hint at it…
De Ruyter’s expedited exit from Eskom follows an explosive interview with eNCA this week…
And then again…
The minister in charge of Eskom, Pravin Gordhan, called the interview “unfortunate and said de Ruyter should keep his political views private…
But there is no outright indication of cause and effect. The media can only hint. They cannot say it, because nobody really knows what is going on there.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck …
In any event, it makes no real difference regarding “cause and effect”.
De Ruyter had the interview.
He was released to leave earlier.
Let me share something. I was inside the building at megawatt park when a certain Minister stared shouting at an Exec that you could hear on the other side of that big building, and they were in an office at the time.
Within days said Exec left. Not a word about what happened. So in this case for DeRuyter, he was directly instructed to go. The minister or el Hippopresidente gave the order to the board as soon as it was known what the interview was about. You can take that to the bank, in my estimation.
Do I KNOW this, no. Past behaviour predicts the future course of action. They do not want to be exposed and loose all that monies… He was getting right over the target!
Groetnis
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So reading all of this:
- The stage 7 loadshedding
- The almost certainty that we’ll have loadshedding of stage 6+ in winter
- The hints that stage 8 is coming (Eskom prepping for it etc.)
- De Ruyter’s quick exit and the interview
- The Reserve Bank prepping for a grid collapse
- The insurance companies prepping for a grid collapse
I think it is seriously time to starting taking this more seriously again 
Personally, I’ve been planning this for 10+ years.
Conclusion: … still working on it …
PS. And If I find the answer, can only share it with trusted people who think the same as I do.
PSS. And it is not going to be “easy/nice” to help/protect oneself.
It is a very contentious subject matter.
EDIT: And the time is not right either. Still, if/when/maybe/could.
Who is this Padayachee …
‘We challenge you’ – ANC’s Fikile Mbalula … that man Filile must be careful what he wishes for … does he even have permission to speak?
Stand up comedian in the party of comedy, or maybe of irony. If it was not true, the allegations that is, it would indeed be funny…
LagniemeernieGroetnis
Eskom spokesperson Sikhonathi Mantshantsha said that the board was not pleased with his conduct during the interview and requested him to step down.
There you go. Now the vagueness is gone and I’m willing to confidently make the connection. I tend to give a LOT of benefit of the doubt even to people who don’t really deserve it, but now the doubt is gone.
There’s still no direct quote from him which would have been nice, but yeah.
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If De Ruyter does not “prove what he said” about the ANC, the party will proceed with legal action, Mbalula said.
“We as the ANC, we will take action,” he vowed.
“That man – he must prove what he said about us… We will challenge him for saying that our party is corrupt and failing to prove how.”
From Mbalula calls on De Ruyter to provide evidence for Eskom corruption claims
Also, if you really dissect the language, Mantshantsa said “The board didn’t like it AND they requested him to step down”, which technically still isn’t the same as “The board didn’t like it, THEREFORE they requested him to step down”. But saying it in the same sentence like that, and also given this:
Eskom has clarified details surrounding its parting with former CEO Andre de Ruyter, stating that he had brought the power utility into disrepute.
Now it is pretty normal that an employment contract may have a clause against bringing the company into disrepute, so from the very beginning I thought that IF this is the case, then such a clause will probably be the justification. So on balance, I still think the evidence now fully supports the premises: They fired him out of spite.
Well, to be clear, the “board” fired him, but I suspect it was under massive political pressure.
he must prove what he said about us
Careful what you wish for… then again, Zuma always said he wants his day in court while his lawyers did absolutely everything in their power to stop that from happening, so we’ve seen this part of the play before.
(From the Ox to the Coat, as we say in Afrikaans, I suddenly have a much greater appreciation for classical music. When you repeat something in classical music, you generally modify the second repetition to sound different, to be an echo of the first… not to be exactly the damn same, like in pop music… and politics. Come on people!)
Who appoints the board and the Chair? 1+1=2
Govt is supposed to be the Shareholder, so yes. But look a bit closer, Lethuli house…
Groetnis
PS: DeRuyter also said there is no separation at Eskom between the Party and the State, he will have first hand knowledge.
So… guys… That 8.5 Billion, can we assume that we’re probably not getting it anymore? That would make sense when the news reaches the would-be funders.
No, we getting that, but where that will go, as I mentioned on here in the past, that is the question.
GeldGroetnis
That would be my guess! And that’s why there is panic at the top!
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My wife too. Especially with our (adult) kids. (yeah, I question the adult part at times)
She is my “barometer” at home. So same as here, when she stops giving a “LOT of benefit”… o boy. HKGK.
For the last 2-3 months mommy has curbed her “enthusiasm” giving them less of a benefit than ever before. … I tried to warn them kids … but hey, what do “old people” know!? We know enough … 
The news is out, internationally, when operating at De Ruyters level. I sincerely hope they will reconsider, demanding actionable actions to ensure a sustainable ROI on where their monies are spent, and no, Rama saying it will be so means nothing!
That energy consultant (name escapes me) said the same as De Ruyter, “they” know who the culprits in Gov are, they know fo the criminal element, highly organized. Maybe the international investors in Eskom, maybe they will demand real action now.
Can only hope.