A crisis far bigger than Eskom

[Currantly]

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There is a far bigger crisis looming. And because the supply side is completely distributed to regional, district and even municipal level, it isn’t as easily manageable as Eskom. And it’s going to take an almighty effort to solve over the medium term.

Water.

Day Zero in Cape Town captured the headlines last year because this affected a massive city – arguably the country’s second most important – and the seat of Parliament. As much as this ‘only’ affected 4.2 million residents, it became a national crisis. The local and provincial governments coordinated a response, business mounted an enormous effort to reduce consumption and augment supply, and residents reduced consumption on a scale never seen before globally. The taps kept running. Rainfall was decent and the crisis was averted.

There are far bigger crises playing out in smaller cities and districts across South Africa, but we simply don’t hear about them.

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[Moto Guzzi]

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You are right, and as the corruption is understood better, the circuimstances related will gradually intensify.
The Symtoms are there clear as light, but the abstract levels of the corruption is poorly understood, and not just in SA for that matter. All the old forms of corruption was always there but could be tolerated by monetary systems, however the last 30 years brought a gradual change in activities worldwide, ringnecking capitalism for the poor, middleclass and small bussiness. Its digital, its embedded, the next cost is just a boardroom nodge and a digital click away, this is why it is so difficult to turn the ships around.

 

[MirageF1]

Horrifying....what next for S.A.

It's truly the beginning of the end for this once beautiful country....

 

[Gordon_R]

Water is a perennial issue, but turning local stories into a national crisis based on anecdotal evidence seems to be a common link between these articles: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...-water-situation-is-another-unfolding-crisis/

South Africans may have enough on their plates at the moment in terms of the ongoing inability of Eskom to fulfil the country’s daily energy needs. But experts warn that the country’s water situation is rapidly heading in the same disastrous direction — as recent events in Beaufort West and Makhanda have starkly illustrated.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

This statement, released by emergency aid group Gift of the Givers on Wednesday, reads like a scene from a post-apocalyptic novel.

Yet its reflection of the situation in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) is essentially “accurate”, according to local newspaper Grocott’s Mail editor Sue Maclennan.

Misguided focus?

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

Misguided focus?

I actually like when they change the names of a city and it goes backwards in the span of 5 years. Just goes to show that names are way more important than service delivery! Not surprised as the name was changed to honour a "leader" that failed to conquer the enemy with 10000 soldiers. It was named after a failure.
Bwahahahahaha
#JustAnotherANCSuccessStory

 

[grok]

You can still live without electricity, but lack of water will definitely start to bring population numbers down..

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

I actually like when they change the names of a city and it goes backwards in the span of 5 years. Just goes to show that names are way more important than service delivery! Not surprised as the name was changed to honour a "leader" that failed to conquer the enemy with 10000 soldiers. It was named after a failure.
Bwahahahahaha
#JustAnotherANCSuccessStory

I also appreciate it, but for another reason - at least showing enough respect for the party it was previously named after by changing it before feckign it up.

 

[MrGray]

All the old forms of corruption was always there but could be tolerated by monetary systems, however the last 30 years brought a gradual change in activities worldwide, ringnecking capitalism for the poor, middleclass and small bussiness. Its digital, its embedded, the next cost is just a boardroom nodge and a digital click away, this is why it is so difficult to turn the ships around.

I don't understand. What is "ringnecking" capitalism and what is the meaning of "Its digital, its embedded, the next cost is just a boardroom nodge and a digital click away"?