Fortune , the Retired Runner🏃🏃🏃🏃

Orlando Pirates Emotional Shareholder||

Comrades Marathon medalist||

Non-Conformist||

I tweet in my own personal capacity

[Fortune , the Retired Runner🏃🏃🏃🏃 @RetiredRunn]

@PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa 🏃🏃🏃🏃

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@Simon_Sithole20 @sarstax it pains me..
almost my 400k goes to them annually.,.. I'm aggrieved

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@Abramjee @pule_jones it is going down

[Ess @EMukumbo]

I spent R25k (return flight and accommodation to Malaysia) , here is how I did it and the cost breakdown:

1. For hotel bookings, I used Hyperli who is running a special for R9,990 for 5 night stay including breakfast at Hotel Grand Signature in Malaysia (link below)

[Black-Jesus💧🇿🇦 @KingMntungwa]

Mpho Maboi speaks out on divorce, says decision to leave Reneilwe Letsholonyane 'she was no longer happy'.

[Fortune , the Retired Runner🏃🏃🏃🏃 @RetiredRunn]

@nasiphim @CityTshwane No mercy..
well done Hazel

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@Siviwe_G @DBE_SA @nasiphim well done Hazel... Tshwane ya tima...

we are all equal

[Fortune , the Retired Runner🏃🏃🏃🏃 @RetiredRunn]

@Lord_Ori_ @NYDARSA inexperienced Board Chairperson...🙁

[Aaron Mpeqa @Aaron_JamesZA]

Maybe I should open a security company , maybe I can get a slice of R600million

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@teffo_ME not appealing

[Moshe @Moshe_Meso]

Robert Marawa on that Sales House drip 🙌😂

[Radio 2000 @Radio2000_ZA]

“I found out that 3 out of the 4 kids I have with my wife are not mine”
#TheRoyalPlayground

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it is getting muddy...

[Ziyanda N @ZiyandaNgcobo]

BREAKING: SAPS, IDAC ROW DEEPENS

Crime intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo and maj-gen Nozipho Madondo have filed complaints with ministers of Justice & police as well as the NDPP following the arrest threats debacle.

They have also written to IDAC head Andrea Johnson wanting to know why their warning statements were not taken.

Their lawyers have asked the justice minister to look into whether IDAC has been acting within its constitutional mandate.

#SAPSWars #DumisaniKhumalo #IDACArrests

[Msunu ka Johann Rupert @ZizinjaAbelungu]

Julius Mkhwanazi was probably sending this R20K written "I Love you" to his mistress,

I do not think the wife at Home knows this 😭😭

#MadlangaCommision

[Fortune , the Retired Runner🏃🏃🏃🏃 @RetiredRunn]

@misumuzi_4 hectic...
Julias must come back to answer all these nonsenses

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@teffo_ME 🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶..
ngiyesaba

[Modibe Vladimir Modiba @mmodiba10]

🚨 CITY POWER CEO INTERVIEWS ARE REPORTEDLY TAKING PLACE THIS WEEK.

Before Johannesburg gets a new CEO, residents deserve answers about what appears to be one of the most controversial executive recruitment processes in recent municipal history.

🧵

1/

Let’s start with the facts.

City Power is reportedly sitting with a negative bank balance of approximately R16.3 billion.

Service delivery continues to deteriorate.

Unplanned outages are increasing.

Technical and non-technical losses are rising.

Yet the Board is about to appoint a new CEO.

2/

According to News24, City Power paid approximately R55 million to Masego Consulting for management and strategic support functions while the utility was already in severe financial distress.

The obvious question:

Why was a consultant being paid millions to perform functions for which City Power already employs highly paid executives?

3/

Now comes the interesting part.

The same consultancy is reportedly involved in the recruitment process for the next CEO.

Residents should know:

What exactly is Masego’s role?

Are they advising?

Shortlisting?

Screening candidates?

Influencing outcomes?

4/

But that is not the biggest concern.

An internal City of Johannesburg governance memorandum reveals that the original CEO advertisement was aligned with National Treasury requirements.

The original requirements included:

✔ NQF Level 8 Engineering
✔ NQF Level 7 Business/Finance

5/

The memorandum states that National Treasury had already concurred with the original advertisement.

Then the Board changed it.

The memo describes the amendment as a “material deviation” from the version supported by both the Shareholder and National Treasury.

6/

Why is that important?

Because the memorandum explains exactly why the engineering requirement existed.

The CEO of a utility must be capable of managing:

⚡ Infrastructure-intensive operations
⚡ Energy market reforms
⚡ Capital investment programmes
⚡ Financial sustainability
⚡ Long-term utility sustainability

7/

The memo goes further.

It warns that the Board’s deviation may jeopardise approximately R1.4 billion in reform-linked funding.

More than R433 million of that funding is earmarked for City Power.

Think about that.

8/

At a time when Johannesburg is battling:

⚡ Infrastructure failures
⚡ Network instability
⚡ Escalating maintenance backlogs
⚡ Illegal connections
⚡ Revenue losses

The Board chose to weaken the very requirements approved under the reform programme.

9/

Now let’s talk about one of the reported shortlisted candidates.

Current COO Charles Tloane.

10/

Mr Tloane’s appointment as COO has long been controversial.

Municipal competency regulations require substantial management experience for executives reporting directly to accounting officers.

Critics argue that when he was appointed, he did not possess the minimum experience normally required for such a position.

11/

His publicly cited qualifications include:

• BCom degree (NQF 7)
• N6 qualification

Importantly, he does not possess the NQF Level 8 Engineering qualification contained in the original CEO advertisement.

12/

So Johannesburg residents should ask a simple question:

If the original CEO requirements remained unchanged, would every currently shortlisted candidate still qualify?

13/

The timing raises unavoidable questions.

First:

An advert requiring an engineering qualification.

Then:

The Board changes the requirements.

Then:

A candidate without that engineering qualification is reportedly shortlisted.

The Board owes the public an explanation.

14/

And remember:

This is happening after City Power reportedly recorded losses of BILLIONS.

Approximately at -R20 Billion in debts.

The first reported loss of that magnitude in the utility’s history.

15/

Under the current leadership structure, residents have experienced:

⚡ More outages
⚡ More infrastructure failures
⚡ Greater financial distress
⚡ Rising losses

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@AdvoBarryRoux Paid tweet

[Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦 @wicks_jeff]

Tembisa Hospital’s extraction sprint

A procurement meeting convened at Tembisa Hospital - meant to be a check against corrupt contracts - approved 50 deals in two and a half hours.

All the deals went to the same man. The full story on @News24 on Monday.