South Africa experienced stage 8 load-shedding — Mantashe

3WA said:
He might be trying to spin things so it seems like a post-De Ruyter improvement. Gotta make it sound like things are getting better going into the election.
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There'll be no post-de Ruyter improvements unless politicians like Mantashe flapping his lips about ANC failures gets removed. South Africa as we know it cannot survive ANC corruption, it will transform into another failed African state due to leadership fail, but then seems this is exactly what people want/have been conditioned into accesping..
 
Thing is, the EAF is very similar to a year ago. So perhaps we're starting to temporarily benefit from lower demand rather, given the homes and businesses who have procured their own generation over the last year (or closed shop in the case of some businesses). In the long run this is a big problem for Eskom as has been discussed many times, but any reduction in load shedding will obviously be hailed as an accomplishment by ministers with an election coming up. Still, it's early days and it's been holiday season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1748256575024726155
 
Parched said:
Thing is, the EAF is very similar to a year ago. So perhaps we're starting to temporarily benefit from lower demand rather, given the homes and businesses who have procured their own generation over the last year (or closed shop in the case of some businesses). In the long run this is a big problem for Eskom as has been discussed many times, but any reduction in load shedding will obviously be hailed as an accomplishment by ministers with an election coming up. Still, it's early days and it's been holiday season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1748256575024726155
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EAF has nothing to do with demand. EAF is the energy availability available at an Eskom's plants. It's powerplant performance. So alternative power sources have no bearing on EAF at all. Eskom do major maintenance during the summer months, that's why the EAF is higher during the higher-demand winter months,.
 
genetic said:
EAF has nothing to do with demand. EAF is the energy availability available at an Eskom's plants. It's powerplant performance. So alternative power sources have no bearing on EAF at all.
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I'm saying that the article (and Gwede) are hailing the reduction in loadshedding compared to the first two weeks of last year. Yet the EAF is almost the same. So hence loadshedding is lower due to demand being lower.
 
Yaya. Forget pulling the other leg. If he was asking the country to pull his finger, then there would be more to reliably look forward to than what we'll get as it is.

I mean let's look at the "news" just a little bit earlier...

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Eskom running out of money for diesel

Eskom only has R4 billion left of its diesel budget for the next two and a half months, but it needs much more to keep the lights on.
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Ask Gweezy about that.
 
The well oiled machine that Cassim and Spatla handed over hey........
 
The fat fsck just blithely ignores that a significant portion of current load shedding is squarely down to him and his department fscking around.
 
A year later he tells us that they kept information from us?

But yes let's vote for ANC, such logic!
 
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