ANC blasts 'insensitive' Eskom over Soweto power cuts

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Party spokesman Jolidee Matongo labelled the power outages as "an act of sabotage" and accused Eskom of being insensitive.

Most parts of Soweto were without power for at least 10 hours on Friday. They were reported outages in some parts yesterday.

The ANC's attack on Eskom is a sign that the party feels that its support is under threat in Johannesburg, going into next year's local government elections.

The party fears that such disruptions could fuel discontent with the ruling party in a traditional stronghold, following protests by residents in Orlando West against the installation of electricity meters.

Matongo said Eskom had failed to inform Soweto residents in advance about the outages. "[Eskom's] failure to provide answers regarding this borders on ill-discipline by highly-paid Eskom officials who stay outside Soweto and are currently enjoying themselves in well-lit posh houses in the suburbs."

The ANC threatened to organise a protest to demand the dismissal of Eskom officials if power was not restored in Soweto.


Soweto shrugs off R4 billion Eskom bill
"We are now considering the termination of Eskom's electricity supply to Soweto and the immediate resuscitation of the Kelvin Power Station to supply areas of Johannesburg through City Power."

Soweto residents owe Eskom an estimated R4-billion - which forms half of the total R8-billion Eskom is owed by all municipalities.

Despite the fact that only 16% of Sowetans pay their Eskom accounts, the utility has kept the lights on in South Africa's biggest township.

Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said the power utility had implemented stage one load shedding across the country and Soweto was one of the affected areas.

He said because of the cold weather, power transformers could not handle the increased demand in some parts of Soweto.

The City of Johannesburg also lambasted Eskom, and echoed the ANC's sentiments that power cuts were insensitive.

"What exacerbated this was the deafening silence and indifference on the part of Eskom, which showed complete and utter disregard to the people of Soweto," said Matshidiso Mfikoe, a member of the mayoral committee for infrastructure services.

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What gets me is this

"We are now considering the termination of Eskom's electricity supply to Soweto and the immediate resuscitation of the Kelvin Power Station to supply areas of Johannesburg through City Power."


There are power stations not being used unless the ANC wants?

 

[Segg]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundayti...asts-insensitive-eskom-over-soweto-power-cuts


What gets me is this

"We are now considering the termination of Eskom's electricity supply to Soweto and the immediate resuscitation of the Kelvin Power Station to supply areas of Johannesburg through City Power."


There are power stations not being used unless the ANC wants?

AFAIK Calvin power station is privately owned (Bidvest and Nedbank IIRC) and they've recently started bringing it back online after being mothballed

This is if Kelvin is the one by the airport, I'm not too familiar with all the power station names

But there is a paper somewhere stating how the ANC forbid new power stations being built and commissioned

Eskom is well within their rights to terminate services due to non payment

 

[Compton_effect]

AFAIK Calvin power station is privately owned (Bidvest and Nedbank IIRC) and they've recently started bringing it back online after being mothballed

This is if Kelvin is the one by the airport, I'm not too familiar with all the power station names

But there is a paper somewhere stating how the ANC forbid new power stations being built and commissioned

Eskom is well within their rights to terminate services due to non payment

Kelvin is actually up and running and supplying 250 MW, last I heard. Its part of CoJ's load-shedding mitigation program.

They can pout all they want, hard reality means that Soweto has to also take part of the load. The next election is going to be an eye opener.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I thought, Eskom = ANC

Didn't the ANC stated that they would take control over the matter (I know loadshedding), but the Soweto circumstances would had been tabled to the ANC...

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Go fsck yourselves. So it's not insensitive when they cut power to the rest of us? Those bastards must pay too...

 

[Zewp]

"[Eskom's] failure to provide answers regarding this borders on ill-discipline by highly-paid Eskom officials who stay outside Soweto and are currently enjoying themselves in well-lit posh houses in the suburbs."

"Har har har" said the ANC party members, swallowing down half a bull each in their R70 million houses as their supporters lay starving in the streets.

 

[BigEars]

Yip. Time for people to wake up.

 

[Creag]

Sounds like a lot of grandstanding by the ANC. Not much thought in their mutterings. Typical.

 

[vaakseun]

The ANC should maybe check the facts first before dirtying their panties. The outages were due to overloads not cutting off due to non-payment. Stupid nitwits.

 

[FNfal]

Political point scoring BS .
What they say and what they do are totally opposites .
Part of Eskoms problems is lack of payment .
If i do not pay my electricity i get cut off .
Cut the MOFOs off already .

 

[wizardofid]

Yip. Time for people to wake up.

I hate to say it, and I think a lot of people forget, that should another party win the election, you are left with a mighty big mess, this is not some thing you will be able to fix in 4 years, not even two terms in office will be enough to clean up half of it.

The second problem is if you manage to get one term, and not another, the ruling party will just undo whatever little good you managed to get done.The state of things means you need to have at least 2 terms or more, for the impact of changes or policy to affect every one.That again isn't healthy for a democratic system as you just replace one ruling party for another, with their own agenda of what they think is good for the country.

Either way who ever takes over is left with a burning turd on their doorstep, bare feet, with a bucket filled with holes.....A big old pile of shyte and not a spade large enough to fix the problem.....

 

[BigEars]

I hate to say it, and I think a lot of people forget, that should another party win the election, you are left with a mighty big mess, this is not some thing you will be able to fix in 4 years, not even two terms in office will be enough to clean up half of it.

The second problem is if you manage to get one term, and not another, the ruling party will just undo whatever little good you managed to get done.The state of things means you need to have at least 2 terms or more, for the impact of changes or policy to affect every one.That again isn't healthy for a democratic system as you just replace one ruling party for another, with their own agenda of what they think is good for the country.

Either way who ever takes over is left with a burning turd on their doorstep, bare feet, with a bucket filled with holes.....A big old pile of shyte and not a spade large enough to fix the problem.....

And you are 100% correct. But if we don't start soon, like next elections, SA is lost forever.
The ANC promised the world for Votes. And have delivered little.

It is going to take a lot to fix the mentality they have etched into their Soweto residents of "free electricity"....

The ANC have basically stuffed all up with the "enrichment for cadres" principle. Fat cats get fatter and the poor stay dumb. And hungry.

One hell of a hard rocky road ahead to fix this.

 

[Vrotappel]

ANC blowing itself again.

 

[Polymathic]

Working the base for the local elections I see

 

[Albereth]

Kelvin is actually up and running and supplying 250 MW, last I heard. Its part of CoJ's load-shedding mitigation program.

They can pout all they want, hard reality means that Soweto has to also take part of the load. The next election is going to be an eye opener.

City Power used to own it - it was sold off.

 

[ProfA]

Mother's private parts. Why is it when my paid for power gets cut its not insensitive?

 

[ellyally]

Mother's private parts. Why is it when my paid for power gets cut its not insensitive?

Indeed, I don't recall ANC complaining when my area(like so many others experience weekly around the country) doesn't come back on after load shedding due to sub station problems etc. Longest I had was 16hour straight. This '10hour' outage is nothing more than stage 3 for a lot of us in JHB(although, credit where credit is due, have not had that in a long time, but schedules are there and it is coming again over winter)

 

[Hemi300c]

I hate to say it, and I think a lot of people forget, that should another party win the election, you are left with a mighty big mess, this is not some thing you will be able to fix in 4 years, not even two terms in office will be enough to clean up half of it.

The second problem is if you manage to get one term, and not another, the ruling party will just undo whatever little good you managed to get done.The state of things means you need to have at least 2 terms or more, for the impact of changes or policy to affect every one.That again isn't healthy for a democratic system as you just replace one ruling party for another, with their own agenda of what they think is good for the country.

Either way who ever takes over is left with a burning turd on their doorstep, bare feet, with a bucket filled with holes.....A big old pile of shyte and not a spade large enough to fix the problem.....

It'll take up to 4 years to get the fkers to leave office. The Pretoria mayor was fired and it took I think 2yrs to get her out and then she was replaced by a very close relative and it could even be her son if I am not mistaken.

The cANCer is just lobbying for votes and support. Cut anyone who doesn't pay without a valid reason. Illegal connections are a danger to humans ans assets and should be punishable by a prison sentence for theft, fraud and endangerment.

If you cannot afford something you shouldn't have it.

 

[Wall]

**** off,

 

[Ho3n3r]

It's good to see the DA's new leader announcement has given them a massive fright. Yes, a fright - the ANC's level of lack of comfort with a certain situation, is directly proportional to the amount of utter BS they spew trying to keep votes. This must be one of the bigger frights they've had since 1994, judging by the contents of this statement.