South Africa's energy crisis as serious as Covid - people are just dying differently

[Jan]

Eskom load-shedding is killing people

Rotational power cuts are killing South Africans, and government should be treating it with the same seriousness as it did the Covid-19 pandemic.

That is the view of energy sector analyst Roger Lilley.

 

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[sand_man]

Meh, who needs small business anyway. It's not like they SA's biggest source of formal employment, or anything...

 

[konfab]

Rotational power cuts are killing South Africans, and government should be treating it with the same seriousness as it did the Covid-19 pandemic.

Serious policies like banning people from buying cooked chicken and wearing open shoes.

 

[Gazg]

****ing baffoons.

 

[wingnut771]

Move to KZN, no loadshitting here since the floods.

 

[HartsockZA]

Nice article, was really hit the nail on the head, sadly will do nothing but provide us that can still read a bit of amusement cause at the end of all this. Nothing will happen

 

[sand_man]

Move to KZN, no loadshitting here since the floods.

Luckily for you there's more flooding due over the weekend!!

 

[wingnut771]

Luckily for you there's more flooding due over the weekend!!

Cold fronts don't bring heavy rain from my experience, it's the cut-off lows that we must worry about. I think it's just MSM hyping things. The worst that will happen is I'll have to go find my jersey.

 

[Swa]

How is it that every competent minister so far has been replaced in less than a year or two but those only driving the country into the ground stay in their posts indefinitely?

 

[Swa]

Move to KZN, no loadshitting here since the floods.

Because they've been shaving it off the rest of us. It goes off at 6:10 and only comes on at 8:20. The other night it only came on for 5 seconds before going off again for exactly another hour.

 

[Lupus]

Because they've been shaving it off the rest of us. It goes off at 6:10 and only comes on at 8:20. The other night it only came on for 5 seconds before going off again for exactly another hour.

That is a trip

 

[wingnut771]

Because they've been shaving it off the rest of us. It goes off at 6:10 and only comes on at 8:20. The other night it only came on for 5 seconds before going off again for exactly another hour.

Thank you for your service.

 

[Rayne]

Only Ethekwini do not currently get load shed. **** the rest of KZN.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Move to KZN, no loadshitting here since the floods.

Nah.. We just randomly have entire neighbourhoods go off for extended periods at a time...

 

[RonSwanson]

“People are dying differently. They are dying because they are losing their jobs. They are dying emotionally, as it were,” Lilley said in an interview with eNCA.

“They’ve lost trust in this government. They’ve lost trust in the country and yet the minister responsible for Eskom… is silent on the matter.”

What a pile of kak. They are committing suicide because they voted ANC.

 

[wingnut771]

Nah.. We just randomly have entire neighbourhoods go off for extended periods at a time...

100%. Last Sat/Sun we had no power in our area in Glenwood from midnight to about 6pm the next day with a bit of off on off on in the morning. We've only had some power faults a few times since moving here but normally last just a few hours, not almost a whole day. I had to take my AGM battery out the car to keep things running as the other batteries had all died.

 

[The Magster]

“These men should be replaced. They should be replaced quickly otherwise we are going nowhere fast." Really? Are we then still on the journey to nowhere? I reckon we've reached nowhere long ago. The journey is now going beyond nowhere, if that's possible.

 

[Lupus]

“These men should be replaced. They should be replaced quickly otherwise we are going nowhere fast." Really? Are we then still on the journey to nowhere? I reckon we've reached nowhere long ago. The journey is now going beyond nowhere, if that's possible.

The entire government needs to be replaced.

 

[AlphaJohn]

The entire government needs to be replaced.

At this point life would be better if you just remove the government period.

I mean they f all positive they bring to the table at this point in time. We fix our own roads, Private schools/Hospitals hell even need private security cause cops are useless

Naa just remove government, no need to put something else in its place.