Prepare for many years of Eskom load-shedding

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Prepare for many years of Eskom load-shedding

South Africa should prepare for “years of gloom” and citizens must start stockpiling candles and torches, thanks to what lies ahead at Eskom.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, Eskom’s load-shedding and financial problems “could drag the country into a death spiral”.
 
Our economy was on life support before this. Tough times ahead
 
I wonder who is the architect of this load shedding. We know from past that they did to push coal prices paid to mines higher and remove the board and CEO. We have tons of Coal here in SA as we can afford to export it.

We need some real serious intervention here.

This is where you need the EFF to start checking into Eskom operations.
 
DXL said:
I wonder who is the architect of this load shedding. We know from past that they did to push coal prices paid to mines higher and remove the board and CEO. We have tons of Coal here in SA as we can afford to export it.

We need some real serious intervention here.

This is where you need the EFF to start checking into Eskom operations.
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Several stakeholders qualify as architects going back as far as Thabo Mbeki. All deserve to be hauled off to serve time for their crimes of economic sabotage.
supersunbird said:
Can't be good for the ANC with the upcoming elections... good!
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KFC and t-shirt and they win it again
 
Please be advised that stage 2 #loadshedding is to be implemented from 08:00 to 22:00. Please check your area schedules (Eskom or municipalities) for your times that you will be impacted. More details to follow


Loadshedding was expected to start 10am but now they moved it to 8am probably due to more unplanned outages.

Unless it changes to stage 3 I'm not getting loadshedding after getting twice on Fiday and 5 to 19:30 last night :rolleyes:
 
I doubt we will be seeing many years of loadshedding. If things continue they way they do, the whole grid will collapse in total in a few years.
 
McT said:
Several stakeholders qualify as architects going back as far as Thabo Mbeki. All deserve to be hauled off to serve time for their crimes of economic sabotage. KFC and t-shirt and they win it again
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As always, responsibility conveniently only ever goes as far back as Mbeki...

In 1994, when the ANC took power, there were unfortunate changes at Eskom: some of them predictable, some of them surprising. Race-based affirmative action, political inter-ference, and political appointments were predictable. Highly skilled and experienced white engineers, managers, and technicians were given generous ‘packages’ to get out and make way for persons of the correct skin colour and political affiliation. This was sometimes knows ‘space creation’. To Eskom’s previous single brief – providing sufficient electricity were
added various political and ideological objectives.
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In 1998 it forbade Eskom to build new stations. However, the new directives were also vague and confusing,
lacking clarity and consistency. Eskom fell into a void. It no longer knew what it was meant to be doing, or even
what its key function was. In addition, no private generators so much as offered to come in because the price of
electricity was much too low.
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In its election campaign in 1994, the ANC had promised an annual economic growth rate of 6%, which South Africa could easily have attained – especially as other developing countries were growing even faster. If we had increased growth to 6% a year, we would have runout of electricity in 2001.
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https://irr.org.za/reports/atLibert...-and-fall-of-eskom-2013-and-how-to-fix-it-now
 
Lew Skannen said:
I doubt we will be seeing many years of loadshedding. If things continue they way they do, the whole grid will collapse in total in a few years.
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I doubt loadshedding will stay long. Government will step in and throw money at Eskom and loadshedding will disappear. The only thing we know for sure is that the money that will get thrown at Eskom will be the money of the people.
 
cavedog said:
I doubt loadshedding will stay long. Government will step in and throw money at Eskom and loadshedding will disappear. The only thing we know for sure is that the money that will get thrown at Eskom will be the money of the people.
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This is assuming that the government do indeed have access to the required funding and is willing to throw the full amount at fixing the problem permanently. If this is indeed the case, then I have no problem if they take hundreds of billions of our tax money. It just needs to get fixed.
 
Lew Skannen said:
This is assuming that the government do indeed have access to the required funding and is willing to throw the full amount at fixing the problem permanently. If this is indeed the case, then I have no problem if they take hundreds of billions of our tax money. It just needs to get fixed.
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It will never be fixed under the anc
 
cavedog said:
I doubt loadshedding will stay long. Government will step in and throw money at Eskom and loadshedding will disappear. The only thing we know for sure is that the money that will get thrown at Eskom will be the money of the people.
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And we get the absolute nice experience of being wallet raped for it... like R3.50 / kWh
 
Lew Skannen said:
This is assuming that the government do indeed have access to the required funding and is willing to throw the full amount at fixing the problem permanently. If this is indeed the case, then I have no problem if they take hundreds of billions of our tax money. It just needs to get fixed.
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You guys never learn. The objective with Eskom & SAA etc is not to fix but to break down. It's that black system Malema is telling us about.
 
Lew Skannen said:
This is assuming that the government do indeed have access to the required funding and is willing to throw the full amount at fixing the problem permanently. If this is indeed the case, then I have no problem if they take hundreds of billions of our tax money. It just needs to get fixed.
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There is no fixing Eskom. They have R400 billion debt. Jesus there is no coming back from that. They have binding contracts that is more costly to get out of than to just let money go for nothing. The wasteful expenditure is so deeply rooted that the only way to fix it is to get rid o the whole lot and get angels to run Eskom because replacing on captured individual with another is not fixing the issue.
 
As expected. They are running diesel until finished because there is NO other options. The water needs to be pumped back at the water schemes and diesel is low. I can't see how they will build up enough reserves for the week ahead. Ohh and Eskom keeps burning those diesel reserves at a loss non stop. :rolleyes:




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