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So we're at tyranny of the majority, then.

Ah yes. That would mean less for the people that need to eat, and we can't have, now can we? Better to extract it from the paying public.

This is how. I don't shop at my local Checkers, I go to Spar, because it's a nice shop and convenienently close. But when I order online, I use Checkers because they give the best service. And I order online most of the time. They get customers from other shops as well, not just changing the...

I installed this: https://sonoffafrica.co.za/product/sonoff-powr320d/ (Original firmware) There is a version with a temperature sensor as well, but I missed it when browsing the site. I installed it so I can heat my geyser using my solar, using Home Assistant to switch it on at 10:30 and off at...

For average speed detection (which this is probably going to be used for), you need to know the time of each point they pass the cameras as well as the distance between the cameras very accurately. Accurately enough to stand up in court to a judge where you have to prove beyond any doubt that it...

I guess if you have a holiday home somewhere in Gauteng and you spend 2 months a year there, you will need at least 2 number plates, one for your real home and one for Gauteng, because if Gauteng can enforce that, so can every province. I wonder if eNatis will even allow duplicate vehicle...

Low demand = less revenue for Eskom = higher increases in the next cycle. They will not be happy with a mere 18% increase.

It is a US SEC fine. It'll go to the US treasury. SA will have to seperately do a probe to get any more money.

I will leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy

I cannot find any reliable sources for this. You do have a non-rightwing source, right? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/former-twitter-executives-deny-being-pressured-by-democrats-to-block-hunter-biden-story Sometimes the government acts to protect citizens. I know, shocking concept that...

https://ewn.co.za/2021/08/12/anc-was-blindsided-by-the-guptas-and-zuma-friendship-ramaphosa-tells-zondo They were friends of the President. The ANC followed the President. The President appointed the ministers. The Ministers do what the President's friends want, or they get fired. They were...

Are you against having moderation policies, or having to disclose them? If you have no moderation policy, then any moderator can decide what is and is not acceptable, making it different from day to day If you have a policy, but don't disclose it, then the poster has no way to know when they are...

And what kind of impact will the insane environmental damage now have? We already have heatwaves and lack of water, making that worse is not good. That is sure not to have an impact on the people of the future. But then, government will only blame us as consumers for it, not the lack of...

Sputla and Dan will make the municipalities pay Eskom, sure. They will make the corruption and mismangement go away. Eskom will simply get another 33% tariff increase, because we have to pay for all the corruption. And they will get a bailout soon. It's inevitable.

So many here are willing to sacrifice their fellow SA'ans, as it's inevitable. No blame for the cause of this, of course. I hope you will be as sanguine when your time to sacrifice for the greater good comes around. Eskom cannot fix this with coal power stations. It's not that the old power...

I think they are referring to the recent EU taxes on SA fruit exported there, where a surcharge was levied due to the carbon footprint of the national grid.

OK, so at least 2040-2050 then. 8 year overrun on relatively simple coal power plants. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/443784-medupi-and-kusile-eight-years-late-and-r300-billion-over-budget.html And it can't be built by outside contractors. The local construction mafias, the unions and...

So now third parties (i.e. the loadshedding apps) must be the ones making announcements on behalf of Eskom? That's not acceptable. It's kind of the owners of the loadshedding apps, but the responsibility is with Eskom.

If there's no fuel and no one to fix it, wasn't the generators a waste of money? People will still die. It must come with a plan on how to solve the issues at hand, right? The government wants to actually fix things, right?

Yes, a bandaid here and a bandaid there. None of the people responsible will ever be held to account. Kusile - budget overruns and late. No action. Medupi - budget overruns and late. No action. IPP bid windows - how many are assigned? Grid capacity problems - no plans. The government is not...