Load Shedding - the all in one thread

Within 3 years, there won't be any big business left to draw power.
So, problem solved - Africa style.
 
Power cut tonight from maybe sometime around 6pm till just now, Dunkeld near Rosebank in Joburg....
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
We had power cuts from 08:00 - 10:30, 14:00 - 16:30 and 18:00 - 20:30 :sick:
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:mad: Been to Sandton yesterday and today in the morning for meetings, ppl told me they got constant power cuts, and I saw lots of robots not working!! Economic hub of Africa? Looks more like economic gat of AFRICA.
 
One night in the not too distant future with the whole world watching...

Commentator1: It's nearly half time! Hope he can pull it off.
Commentator2: I'm sure he can. This will be the equalizer!
Commentator1: Only five seconds left...
*pitch black*
Commentator2: What was that? Space aliens?
Commentator1: No. I think it's Eskom again... :rolleyes:
 
Prometheus said:
One night in the not too distant future with the whole world watching...

Commentator1: It's nearly half time! Hope he can pull it off.
Commentator2: I'm sure he can. This will be the equalizer!
Commentator1: Only five seconds left...
*pitch black*
Commentator2: What was that? Space aliens?
Commentator1: No. I think it's Eskom again... :rolleyes:
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I wonder if this counts as the mammoth disaster that will prevent us from hosting the WC?
 
Moederloos said:
I wonder if this counts as the mammoth disaster that will prevent us from hosting the WC?
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We have enough power to run the stadiums, if nothing else. There is too much money at stake for fifa to consider moving it. Nothing short of civil war will change that.
 
icyrus said:
We have enough power to run the stadiums, if nothing else. There is too much money at stake for fifa to consider moving it. Nothing short of civil war will change that.
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Please do not say that - I still predict one. Soon.
 
Something is going to have to give, I cant see this behaviour continuing for another 2 years let alone 7. Eskom could answer alot more if allowed I suspect...

There is a small issue. If government was told about this impending problem in 2000/2001 why did they not act? Eskoms request for funding was denied, or so we told.

How is it that government neither Eskom publicly stated in 8 years time we expect to experience cronic power shortages and power outages. They did not give a warning of what we experiencing.

So now if I run a business, from 2001 I could budget and prepare for the eventual power crunch in a few years time. I could of made contingency plans.
 
Peon said:
Something is going to have to give, I cant see this behaviour continuing for another 2 years let alone 7. Eskom could answer alot more if allowed I suspect...
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I don't buy their whole story. There is something they are not telling us. There is no way they can have enough power for Winter and then run so short in Summer unless they are selling the power off elsewhere.
 
Eniigma said:
What gets me about all these power cuts is that Eskom is happy to carry on supplying power to neighbouring countries and turn off the local power. We really need figures on how much is being exported.

Frankly I don't see anything getting better until Eskom and it's shareholders start feeling an impact on their pockets.
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I am GATVOL with this loadshedding!!! We should stop supplying power to neighbouring countries. This country is deteriorating at a rapid rate as it is. How many candles does it take to watch a world cup soccer match ( not that I really care as I don't watch soccer myself)::mad:
 
Abe said:
I don't buy their whole story. There is something they are not telling us. There is no way they can have enough power for Winter and then run so short in Summer unless they are selling the power off elsewhere.
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Or they have damaged some stations by over-running them in winter.
 
As far as i can tell, Koberg is being refueled at the momemt, so they need to draw power down from the northern provinces to us out here in CT :D

They said the load sheading is going to continue for a couple of years, as they planning to build another nuclear power station, which will take forever. If Neotel is a benchmark, expect delays from crappy excuses.

And any enviromental jockie saying that nuclear power is bad and blah blah. I'd rather have nuclear power than coal power stations. Eskom had a wind power project and it was found to be unfeasible.

So GO NUCLEAR!!!!!!
 
Moederloos said:
They have been for some time.
It would take real courage to try and spin something positive from the mess their party got this country into.
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They are just as stupid as is the government members running the country. "No brains, No pain" the usual excuses will apply of course. I would like to bring back a few old arguments of the past where they were so adamant that we will never end up in such a situation, The economy and riches (Although false) and the surplus is better than ever (Of course if you do not spend the money where is counts). No effective schools, No effective police, No effective medical system no effective governance? Etc. What an debate that will be! :D

Back to power. They and their cronies created the situation and they do not know what to do. IMHO the current JSE and Rand woes is just a small jitter of whats to come. Investors is starting to realize that this country is no different from the rest of Africa, basically in bed and one and the same as Zimbabwe. They realized they are dealing with Robert Mbeki and Thabo Mugabe. ( why does that have such a nice ring to it?) Blood-brothers!
 
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