CHRodger

When you get up, you gotta do stuff

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

So, I got to understand clearly the specific defined roles that Commissioners Baloyi and Khumalo play as Co-Commissioners, which explains their line of questioning whenever they probe the witness. It's not just asking for the sake of asking, they are fulfilling a specific mandate.

Commissioner Baloyi: Senior counsel assisting the Chairperson with legal analysis and recommendations.

Commissioner Khumalo: Assists the Commission with investigative inquiries and oversight of evidentiary processes.

So when Commissioner Baloyi says "Hang on, before you proceed, can I get this clear, can you please clarify, when you say..." "Can I put this proposition to you...", she's already analyzing the evidence you are presenting so that she and the other Commissioners can start thinking about the recommendations they are going to make about you and everything related to your evidence.

When Commissioner Khumalo says "go to Annexure B, page 185, paragraph 4, he is zooming into the actual evidence that the Investigators have come up with and the Evidence Leaders have packaged, which he oversees. So he's thourough like that so thst he doesn't leave any stone unturned. He closes the gaps, hence I've always called him the Striker at the goal posts after Commissioner Baloyi has passed her the ball. 😄
#MadlangaCommission

[Jdp @jdpkru]

Too white...

[mark 🇿🇦 @markmywords]

Unbelievable. @GovernmentZA, mostly the @MYANC looters, are messing us around.

[CHRodger @ch_rodger]

@AardvarkBloody Looking at Barbara, with the glasses and blinkered mind.
She needs a guide dog and white cane.

[Danny Nel @magicdan60]

Stop ANC's BEE Discrimination Scam.

https://t.co/MGCeAAaPKZ

[Thuso™ 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 @ramalokot]

R52k in 6 hours for our poi #KarlSanders

Donate here: https://t.co/A0sW8AjxaL

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

🚨 ESKOM SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT – THE DEEPEST, MOST EXPLOSIVE DEEP DIVE WE’VE EVER DONE
South Africa has been circling the drain for years.

Load-shedding destroyed businesses, hospitals ran on generators, families sat in the dark, and the economy bled out while politicians played games.

We’ve covered water crises, construction mafia, cadre deployment, and state capture.

Now we go to the root of it all.
I’m launching the definitive Eskom series. A full 8 massive parts that will be the reference pieces people link for years.

This isn’t another surface-level rant. This is forensic, receipt-heavy, no-holds-barred investigative journalism that connects every dot: Medupi & Kusile’s R300–400 billion technical disasters, cadre deployment destroying competence, Gupta-era state capture and the coal mafia, the REIPPPP procurement history that actually worked, virtual wheeling mechanics that are quietly revolutionising private power, sabotage allegations, the human carnage, the political shield, and the real solutions that could fix it.

What you’re getting:
Part 1 – Medupi and Kusile: The R300–400 Billion Megaproject Catastrophe (full technical autopsy with hydrogen explosion, chimney collapse, boiler defects, exact cost escalations, and visuals)
Part 2 – Cadre Deployment and The Destruction of Technical Competence
Part 3 – State Capture 1.0: The Gupta Era, Coal Mafia and Zondo Bombshells
Part 4 – REIPPPP Procurement History: How Competitive Bidding Actually Delivered GWs Fast and Cheap
Part 5 – Virtual Wheeling Explained: The Software-Powered Private Sector Alternative (mechanics, Eskom’s 2025–2026 platform, trader aggregation, NERSA rules, and why it’s scaling while state megaprojects failed)
Part 6 – Sabotage, Arson and The Uncomfortable Questions
Part 7 – The Human and Economic Carnage (hospitals, businesses, jobs, daily life destroyed)
Part 8 – The Political Shield and The Fix (Western Cape contrast, RICO-style solutions, what real reform looks like)

Every part will be long, densely sourced (Zondo full reports, SIU filings, AGSA audits, Eskom official statements, engineering investigations, court records, and the full primary source list I’ve compiled. Please see below), with timelines, diagrams, before/after visuals, and zero fluff.
Why now?

Because Eskom is the single biggest reason South Africa is falling apart. And, like clockwork, the private sector (REIPPPP + virtual wheeling) is already showing a better way. This series will be the one people reference when they argue about energy policy for the next decade.

Primary Sources (partial, full bibliography in every part):
https://t.co/SteD1WkVWG
https://t.co/79rYR9GGq2
https://t.co/6LKkSnGiUU
https://t.co/XVYV8bD2Da
https://t.co/54ZpZxksRW
...and dozens more from Zondo, SIU, AGSA, NERSA, https://t.co/EW2OZ470nb, https://t.co/c9QhqmFFd9, etc.

Part 1 drops very soon.
Get ready. Follow. Turn on notifications. Share this post.

This is going to be the deepest, most revealing, most referenced Eskom exposé ever published on X or anywhere else.

South Africa deserves the unfiltered truth about why the lights went out, and how we can turn them back on.
Who’s ready? 🔥

#EskomExposed #MedupiKusile #VirtualWheeling #REIPPPP #SouthAfricaEnergyCrisis #StateCapture #ConstructionMafiaLevelFailure

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

OMG these guys are FUNNY!!!😂👏👏The slow motion part is the best part 🤣

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

🧵 ANC Fuel Tax Heist Exposed: Oil Prices Same as 2012, But You’re Paying Double – And the ANC are Pocketing the Difference.

South Africans are being sold a lie at the petrol pump. The ANC government and its mouthpieces in the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources keep blaming “global oil prices” and “geopolitical tensions” for the crippling cost of fuel. Yet the numbers don’t lie. Brent Crude is trading at levels almost identical to 2012 and 2013 (around $110 per barrel) but inland petrol now costs more than double what it did back then. The difference? A deliberate, decade-long tax grab by the ANC that has turned fuel into one of the biggest cash cows for a regime that then mismanages, wastes, or simply steals the revenue anyway.

[jv @jvnaidoo1]

Now it’s corruption in the Lotteries Commission !!
R2 Billion gone missing !!
These hoodlums are no more interested in thousands or millions. They are going for Billions these days.
What a country this is !!!

[Untold Secrets @RealGemsfinder]

Tube hack every cyclist should know🚲✨

[Megan S. @SimplyMegszcpt]

We have a financial officer serving as police commissioner-
A teacher serving as defence minister-
An ex-convict and 'reformed' gangster serving as minister of Sports, Arts and culture-
A teacher and local preacher serving as minister of water and sanitation-
🙄🇿🇦
https://t.co/CBUhINCI2w

[Therapy @Mathaba2022]

Mnisi was born in December 1989. He became CFO of Thaba Chweu in 2013 meaning he was 23 years old. But his MCom from UJ was only completed in 2021 💆🏽‍♂️8 years after his first CFO appointment.
So the question stands: what exactly did he have at age 23 to qualify him as a CFO?

[MotoAmerica @MotoAmerica]

Darryn Binder just won his first MotoAmerica race in his debut season.👏 Starting in P4, Binder battled his way through securing the win in Supersport Race One.

#motorcycle #motorsports #racing

[Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺 @MbarkCherguia]

Did people really do this? 🤔

[Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash]

WANTED: This is the heartless hitman seen in a trending video killing Martha Mani at Vanderbiljpark last month.
Mani was killed shortly after blowing the whistle on corruption and dubious transactions at the ANC-run Emfuleni local municipality in Gauteng - KZN Tonight Podcast

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

So this Fannie Nkosi is now in the Hospital wing… suddenly everyone remembers they have "serious medical conditions" the moment handcuffs arrive 😭

But when they were busy carrying woolies money bags, signing tender deals and moving like CEOs of corruption, their health was perfectly fine?? No dizziness, no chest pains, nothing?

Like seriously why do alleged criminals only get sick after arrest? Can someone explain this medically

Is it the shock of orange overalls or does accountability trigger high blood pressure? 😂

We need a doctor to confirm: is this a real illness or just a standard South African "post-arrest syndrome" ? 🤔 PAS

[Cuttie Cats 🐱 @klozetzA]

When are we seeing our national nephew at MadlangaCommission??

No one is above the law, whether they are cousins or not.