Load Shedding - the all in one thread

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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Also in Krugersdorp area, we have power cuts from 08:00 - 10:30, 14:00 - 16:30 and from 20:00 - 23:00 power just came back on now.

beanie, any idea where I can get a list of what times the power will go out ? I was at the doctor today and he had a list with the time and date of every power cut.
 
Ohhh, lets say that somewhere in the past, lets make it 1996 the government of a country told the national power supplier that they are going to privatise and that they should sell off all excess power.

Now lets say that company did just that thinking of $$$ instead of thinking of the future...the government can't be wrong, they were democratically elected, they know what they are doing with all their analysts and stuff!

Now lets take a jump into the future to say 2001 and now the government of that country suddenly turns around and ask that same power company to be the sole provider of power again. Now imagine the chaos that would face that country... all the plans for the future were scrapped in 96, all excess power were sold, contracts with say a neighboring country (along with all the excess oil) and now we need to see that country through again...

10 years to build and commision a power station, all the while the demand is growing, all the while we are being fed lies by a red faced political party.

Now that is a plot for a horror movie, just wait till the bad guys in the script catch on that no alarms or security is possible once there is a load shed and we have a dark, dark future ahead (pun intended)...

But what do we know, I just know the one that wrote and read the script to me...
 
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Moederloos said:
One day we will all look back on this and be thankful.
Thankful that we were pushed to leave this godforsaken continent and lead real, positive, constructive lives elsewhere.
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Jip the only sort of positive thing from this situation is another indicator of why I should get out of here as fast as I can.
 
At work we were down from 8 am to 10.30 am and again from 2 pm to 4 pm. At home we were down from 6 pm to 8 pm :sick:

Watched a dvd on my laptop at home. When the electricity came back on my battery was just about dead.
 
Hmm.. And whose gonna pay for all the load shedding babies? :) LOL! In 40 years time we will have the results of a new baby boom! *The load shedders!*
 
Hey guys...Where can i find out exactly WHAT "Stage" a town is in??...I got all the times of the power-cuts, but cant find anything about the "Stages"...ie Brown Stage 1A, Brown Stage 2A, etc etc.
 
Robin Hood said:
Hey guys...Where can i find out exactly WHAT "Stage" a town is in??...I got all the times of the power-cuts, but cant find anything about the "Stages"...ie Brown Stage 1A, Brown Stage 2A, etc etc.
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You cant really... eskom site is the most confusing. Best way i found was to check news24 traffic reports and see "traffic lights out due to shedding"
 
So, my main server - the one I use to connect to the all the company's servers - is stuffed.

Thank you ANC, thank you eksdom.
That is a week's work now - and probably R5-10K in hardware.

O - and the wife is back home, turned around and said "stuff that".
Took 20 mins to go 800m, because all the robots are out.

Kaching! more money in the economy lost.
 
Woah, never heard so many swear words floating down the corridor at once ... dem ladies is really cross with Eskom this morning.
 
NoADSLyet said:
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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Actually, I'm fairly sure that most of the JSE and Rand woes are related to the global economy, not the South African one - the subprime crisis was a major blow to our stock market, and the worries that the US is heading into a recession is just depressing the global market further.

What will affect us is if S&P downgrade Eskom's rating, but at the moment it's really international factors that are affecting us the most.
 
Cathryn said:
Actually, I'm fairly sure that most of the JSE and Rand woes are related to the global economy, not the South African one - the subprime crisis was a major blow to our stock market, and the worries that the US is heading into a recession is just depressing the global market further.

What will affect us is if S&P downgrade Eskom's rating, but at the moment it's really international factors that are affecting us the most.
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How long do you think this current level of load-shedding can go on before it has a critical effect on our economy? Already companies have lost millions.
 
icyrus said:
How long do you think this current level of load-shedding can go on before it has a critical effect on our economy? Already companies have lost millions.
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A month.
Just long enough for the first dominoes to fall.
Small businesses like Tannie Marie's Hairdresser, then the momentum builds.
She goes out of business, so do her staff. They now cannot pay their bills, so their "suppliers" lose money, then they cannot stay in business.
Ad Nauseum.
 
icyrus said:
How long do you think this current level of load-shedding can go on before it has a critical effect on our economy? Already companies have lost millions.
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It will have an impact, for sure. I was just don't think that the current market issues are related to this, yet.
 
Any overseas company considering starting up a call centre here is likely to take their business elsewhere, and what happened to Thabo's 10 buddies in a PIC business park in the Karoo that are now supposed to be receiving Telkom discounts for being call centres, or is that area exempt from load shedding? :rolleyes:
 
Well, at least after all this, the ANC will lose the next elections. Who in their right mind will vote for them?


BWAHAHAHAA

TIA
 
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