These towns don't get load-shed

I drove through both towns last year. No thanks. Maybe when i'm 106 years old the fokol will appeal to me.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I have been to places like Kathu and Kuruman, and its surroundings, there are some real larney people around there. It is also the places which best show the divide between the rich and poor, than the cities which are always targeted.
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Those mine managers know how to live it up.
 
Acacia Park, in the Wingfield Military Base next to the N1 in Cape Town and home to parliamentarians, has never been load shedded either.
 
Just watching SABC: The Minister of Health is busy announcing a list of hospitals that are/will be exempted from load shedding.

Edit: Business Tech article:
businesstech.co.za

These hospitals are now exempt from load shedding in South Africa

The department of health has announced a number of initiatives to assist the healthcare sector through record rolling blackouts, including exempting hospitals from load shedding.
businesstech.co.za businesstech.co.za
 
Haggis McMutton said:
Why these towns haven't experienced load shedding thus far...

"Kleinzee has not yet been officially transferred to the Nama Khoi municipality, and Koingnaas was only transferred to the Kamiesberg Council in 2016"

Until recently they have been privately managed by DeBeers.

Give it time and they will be down to the rest of the country's level.
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Last time I checked Kleinzee was a gost town.

Back in the day it was a great place to live though. We visited friends there when I was a kid and it was idyllic.
 
Nerfherder said:
Last time I checked Kleinzee was a gost town.

Back in the day it was a great place to live though. We visited friends there when I was a kid and it was idyllic.
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All the small Karoo towns have decayed. The major employers there now are the state. Police, DoH, SASSA, Social Welfare. Justice, NGO's and Municipalities. Retail and farming form the secondary employer. The majority in the towns are unemployed and half the population is small children for the child grant.
 
Gordon_R said:
Just watching SABC: The Minister of Health is busy announcing a list of hospitals that are/will be exempted from load shedding.

Edit: Business Tech article:
businesstech.co.za

These hospitals are now exempt from load shedding in South Africa

The department of health has announced a number of initiatives to assist the healthcare sector through record rolling blackouts, including exempting hospitals from load shedding.
businesstech.co.za businesstech.co.za
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So basically all the schitty government hospitals. Everyone else can afford to die...
 
Cosmik Debris said:
All the small Karoo towns have decayed. The major employers there now are the state. Police, DoH, SASSA, Social Welfare. Justice, NGO's and Municipalities. Retail and farming form the secondary employer. The majority in the towns are unemployed and half the population is small children for the child grant.
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So sad.

I rate they will start turning into little Orania's though... if you can work remotely and create some sort of industry there then its far away from all the ****.
 
Nerfherder said:
So sad.

I rate they will start turning into little Orania's though... if you can work remotely and create some sort of industry there then its far away from all the ****.
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There are plenty of remote workers in the one I'm near. But they're computer literate. Many of the inhabitants can't read or write. They're the ones "incentivised" by the ANC to attend Integrated Development Plan and other meetings and say or vote the way they've been instructed. I have stood by the door watching them getting signed into the attendance register. Since when can illiterates understand an Integrated Development Plan, the Spatial Land Use Act and The Financial Management Act?

More like little Nkandlas with the looting of the municipality. In the town, the "Royal" family has relatives or friends working at all the banks and government institutions enforced by BEE, AA and EE. They know the status of every person in the town's financial affairs. The reason I don't bank with any bank registered in the town.
 
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So this article is a bit of a white lie.

The Gemsbok Line is an HT line that heads up the West Coast of the Northern Cape and feeds the towns of Koingnaas and Kleinzee............ AND my town, Oranjemund over the border in Namibia.

This line was built initially back around the early 80's , late 70's and was built to provide cheap electricity to the De Beers diamond mining towns of Koingnaas, Kleinzee and Oranjemuund.

I mentioned this tale before, But in the town of Oranjemund , De Beers had their own power station....

Oranjemund Power Station

DeBeers got a water tight agreement with Eskom, to ensure that power will always be on to safeguard their workforce working behind sea walls .... in return for DeBeers to get rid of their power station.

Decades later, Kleinzee and Koingnaas are redundant with DeBeers no longer mining, but the line has to still stay live to ensure that the operations over the border in Namibia can continue as per agreement....

The News24 article fails to mention this fact.

on a side note, DeBeers up here are in the process of installing wind and solar to ensure the continuation of their operations and to get off the teat of Eskom which they see as a risk!

Much love and thank you for the power.....

Moose :love:

/Moose leaves fridge doors open as he heads out to turn on pool pump.....
 
Most of Mossel Bay does not get loadshedding as well. The surrounding areas like Hartenbos does get load-shed but not Mossel Bay itself.
 
Ive been on holiday in Durban at my parents place for the last 3 weeks. Back where I grew up. Deteriorating neighborhood but zero load shedding. They haven't had load shedding for months.
 
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