Eskom might as well ask me to leave the country

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Right well the loadshedding schedule for my city has just been published...

My suburb will be loadshedded every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 18:30 - 21:30

Every. Second. Evening.

Why don't Eskom just come out and say "Hey, all of you in these suburbs, we'd like you to emigrate, please?". I honestly cannot believe this. I am going to be without power every second evening until JULY? How am I, or any other family for that matter, going to function? How am I going to get any work done? I need to study, which is kinda hard to do when it requires one's PC and, well... some LIGHT.

I am living in a country that want to charge me 50% more for electricity every month to pay for THEIR SCREW UP, only to sit in the DARK every second evening? I will not be able to afford a generator because of the increase in electricity costs. How ironic is that? I can't afford a generator to give me electricity because I am paying too much for my... electricity.
For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of what was once a great country. I will be leaving at the end of this year and there is pretty much nothing that will ever get me to come back.

How difficult would it be to rotate the loadshedding times? So yes, we are without power from 18:30-21:30 the one week, then the next week we have no power from 8:30 - 11:30, whilst someone else is out from 18:30 to 21:30, and then the next week we have it from 11:30 - 14:30, and so on. Sure it would be annoying having one's power go out at a different time depending on the week, but nowhere near as annoying as not having power every second evening... until at least July.

What this country has degenerated into disgusts me, and I am actually embarrassed to have been born on its soil.
**** you, ANC.
 
AutoX said:
Where can I get the schedules?
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I'm in PMB, and it was published in our Newspaper (Natal Witness). Not sure about the rest of the country, and Eskom's website, much like Eskom themselves, doesn't work for shiit.
 
I have just tried my area on Eiskoms shiit...sorry site.

Here is the results

Area Selected: Pretoria, Faerie Glen

**We regret we could not find a schedule for you. If you are an Eskom customer, please contact the Eskom Contact Center on 08600ESKOM (0860037566) for assistance.

If you are a Municipality / Metro customer please check their web site (see Municipal Schedules links) or contact them for assistance
 
For pta you need to go to www.tswhane.gov.za or something like that, the official pta website, they have the schedules on there, not very accurate but on there
 
moklet said:
So what's the use if they're not accurate
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What do I look like? Eskom employee? That is where you can find them, all that I said, with a disclaimer that they are not correct
 
Kasyx said:
I am living in a country that want to charge me 50% more for electricity every month to pay for THEIR SCREW UP, only to sit in the DARK every second evening?
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And management were rewarded with ridiculous bonuses (with more on the way) for the way they run Eskom :mad:
 
Kasyx said:
Right well the loadshedding schedule for my city has just been published...

My suburb will be loadshedded every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 18:30 - 21:30

Every. Second. Evening.

Why don't Eskom just come out and say "Hey, all of you in these suburbs, we'd like you to emigrate, please?". I honestly cannot believe this. I am going to be without power every second evening until JULY? How am I, or any other family for that matter, going to function? How am I going to get any work done? I need to study, which is kinda hard to do when it requires one's PC and, well... some LIGHT.

I am living in a country that want to charge me 50% more for electricity every month to pay for THEIR SCREW UP, only to sit in the DARK every second evening? I will not be able to afford a generator because of the increase in electricity costs. How ironic is that? I can't afford a generator to give me electricity because I am paying too much for my... electricity.
For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of what was once a great country. I will be leaving at the end of this year and there is pretty much nothing that will ever get me to come back.

How difficult would it be to rotate the loadshedding times? So yes, we are without power from 18:30-21:30 the one week, then the next week we have no power from 8:30 - 11:30, whilst someone else is out from 18:30 to 21:30, and then the next week we have it from 11:30 - 14:30, and so on. Sure it would be annoying having one's power go out at a different time depending on the week, but nowhere near as annoying as not having power every second evening... until at least July.

What this country has degenerated into disgusts me, and I am actually embarrassed to have been born on its soil.
**** you, ANC.
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:eek::eek:

I'm 11:00 to 1:30 FFS :mad:

PMB was shedding 10MV now they're at 18 possible going up as high as 30 even when there is no shortage. While the ***** responsible still have their jobs and fat salaries.

A banana republic well on it's way to join Zimbabwe as another failed state mess. :rolleyes:
 
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Kasyx said:
I'm in PMB, and it was published in our Newspaper (Natal Witness). Not sure about the rest of the country, and Eskom's website, much like Eskom themselves, doesn't work for shiit.
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According to the PCB The Witness is incorrect
 
Kasyx said:
Right well the loadshedding schedule for my city has just been published...

My suburb will be loadshedded every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 18:30 - 21:30

Every. Second. Evening.
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Prime Time!!! They got you bad on that one! Feel for you man, eish!
 
I am SO flamebait on this subject but here it is:

Loadshedding or more accurately blackouts, totally suck - the reasons that we have to endure it are annoying in the extreme ...right, now thats out the way.

Be glad that you have any electricity dudes!
There are thousands of people who have lived here for decades without it!
You live in a 3rd world country, you have a job, home, steady income ...you have health, you have WAY more than the majority of the 3rd world.
A couple of hours sans PC (or a few minutes at most if you use your laptop on low power settings with a battery for the duration of the blackout) is no reason to go round stomping on your rattle.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that causes friction across racial lines, this why black Saffers think white Saffers are idle, puerile, whiney b*tches ...and frankly (as a white Saffer) I agree - grow some nuts okes!
Find a way to do what you need, cook with gas, use solar powered lamps (get them at any garden / nursery shop) find a way to help others do what they need (and maybe make a few bucks while you're at it).
If you are not the kind of person who can manage a bit of ingenuity in the face of adversity I can guarantee you that emigration will be hell for you.

Again: I am not trying to justify it, the blackouts are annoying, the background story is shocking and totally unacceptable.
Having said all of that the fact remains that its up to you how you deal with the situation and that, in the end, is the measure of your integrity.

Its about what you do ...not what they did.

...flame on.
 
I've heard plenty of black "saffers" complain fervently about load shedding. But another interesting angle of blaming whites yet again for fostering racial tensions. Some things never change :rolleyes:
 
alanf85 said:
But another interesting angle of blaming whites yet again for fostering racial tensions. Some things never change :rolleyes:
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They manage to bring race into anything these days... :(

:rolleyes:

Edit:
Last month we were on the 18:00-20:30 time slot for load shedding, now they've moved us to 10:00-12:30 :D
 
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SlinkyMike said:
You live in a 3rd world country
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Yeah, i think a lot of people believe otherwise. Get real people this is a third world country - we have to deal with it as best we can. My maid uses paraffin for lights, heating, and cooking at her home, loadshedding - she couldn't give a ****!
 
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