Electricity fines possible

Biggest problem here is that the cretins in Government and the cretins in Eskom were too quick to get rid of the whites with skills and replace them with blacks with no skills - without a transition period where the outgoing to transfer their skills to the incoming staff, and the net result is incompetence from top to bottom
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Sad but true get rid of people (white black indian whoever) who can actually do the work. eskom is only going to get worse and bye bye 2010
 
Tns said:
Sad but true get rid of people (white black indian whoever) who can actually do the work. eskom is only going to get worse and bye bye 2010
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When your head is incompetent, he wants to hire only idiots - so that his incompetence is not evident to his staff.
 
The best thing is that we roll out power to the poor people but now if they use it there are big fines. So if I am a maid and I earn R1000 a month I have no hope. Bread prices are skyrocketing and the rest of my salary is going to go to electricity and transport.

Personally I am going to moan and have to tighten my belt but I can afford it. The poor are going to be the ones who really suffer. It is absolutely disgusting.
 
PeterCH said:
We had numerous water shortages in the summer months especially in the Western Cape.

We've had petrol shortages.

We've got electricity shortages.

We've had gas shortages.

We've even had Carbon Dioxide shortages.

The ANC government is showing its complete incompetence.
Obviously investment will drop.
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Even worse: Beer shortages! :sick:

We can't even drown our sorrows...
 
I don't see how you can ration electricity. Take water, you have a dam full of the stuff and you try and stretch that out until it rains. We don't have a big dam of electricity, only that which is being made - unless I've missed a whole bunch of capacitors lying around the country.

So, by telling me to use 20% less you are saying I should work a day less per week - fine. I get that. But what happens if every single one of us decides that we will all flip on the lights at exactly 7am on a Monday. Eishkom cannot meet the demand.

Basically we are moving to a 4 day week (try and pull that one back later) which means we are immediately 20% less competitive than we were. The Chinese don't understand weekends and again we'll be buying chinese.

The solution requires political will - something that we haven't had since De Klerk decided to unban the ANC. Frankly the message is:

"Sorry for you neighbours but we need our power and while you are about it take all your people back too. They don't want to go? Smack! Ugly Bob you're history - get out. Slap! You weren't fast enough.

Got a complaint about your huddled masses - go tell the UN, we're looking after our own for once."
 
Albereth said:
I don't see how you can ration electricity. Take water, you have a dam full of the stuff and you try and stretch that out until it rains. We don't have a big dam of electricity, only that which is being made - unless I've missed a whole bunch of capacitors lying around the country.

So, by telling me to use 20% less you are saying I should work a day less per week - fine. I get that. But what happens if every single one of us decides that we will all flip on the lights at exactly 7am on a Monday. Eishkom cannot meet the demand.
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Actually - you have a brilliant point there.
I never thought of that.
In order for me to save power, I can simply switch my PCs off overnight, as well as the geyser.
I can also let my pool turn into a pond (remember, I run the pump only at night).

In the end, I have saved, say 20%, all of that "saving" being done in the off-peak hours where there is no problem, anyways.

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I hear talk now that the quota is being discussed at 500units a month.
That is roughly R250 a month.

Any body else rolling on the floor crying?
 
Its costs R12.50 to run a kettle for an hour.
So don't count on that R250 a month to keep you warm at night.

**** you Eskom. **** you in your stupid ***.
 
Killove said:
Its costs R12.50 to run a kettle for an hour.
So don't count on that R250 a month to keep you warm at night.

**** you Eskom. **** you in your stupid ***.
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I utilise 850 or so units per month.
That is bare bones already - as I have said before, I am a tyrant with electricity.
I just need to shout "LIGHTS" at home, and kids and adults scamper to turn them off.
The only way I am going to save more is to turn my swimming pool into an algae farm.

On a side note: I run a home office - do I get credit for that from "them".
 
Moederloos said:
I utilise 850 or so units per month.
That is bare bones already - as I have said before, I am a tyrant with electricity.
I just need to shout "LIGHTS" at home, and kids and adults scamper to turn them off.
The only way I am going to save more is to turn my swimming pool into an algae farm.

On a side note: I run a home office - do I get credit for that from "them".
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I guess you already have a cover for it?
 
Soon we are going to become the country that the rest of the world depicts us as.
Riding elephants (petrol prices), hunting for food (bread prices) and without technology (eskom).

Sad indeed.
 
bwana said:
I guess you already have a cover for it?
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I am not sure how that is relevant?
A pool is run for 12-14 hours per day in summer. 4-6 in winter.
Anything less than that - and I have tried - and the water clouds rather quickly.
 
They can go suck balls.

wife's opening a nursery school, and she needs the power to prepare food for the kids, and to keep their food/medicine cold.

Will be looking at solar power panels ASAP - they still can go suck balls.
 
The_Librarian said:
They can go suck balls.

wife's opening a nursery school, and she needs the power to prepare food for the kids, and to keep their food/medicine cold.

Will be looking at solar power panels ASAP - they still can go suck balls.
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Where is this nursery school - I am looking for one that I can trust. And you seem mostly OK. :D
 
Moederloos said:
I am not sure how that is relevant?
A pool is run for 12-14 hours per day in summer. 4-6 in winter.
Anything less than that - and I have tried - and the water clouds rather quickly.
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Covered pools require less maintenance and less pump time.
 
bwana said:
Covered pools require less maintenance and less pump time.
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OK - I will buy. How much less pump time?

Because, even if I save, 50%, thats around 6 hours per day, or 180 hours per month. So, 180Kw. brings me closer to the 500, but still way off.
And I have doubts as to the 50%.
That helps in summer, in winter the pool will save just 2 hours or 60Kw a month then. Our bill in winter is the same as summer, and we only have the one heater - which I seldomly use (remember - I am cheap - 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 Jewish and 100% skinflint :D)

But, I will listen.
 
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