Turning Eskom around

Hanno Labuschagne

Hanno Labuschagne

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Turning Eskom around

Eskom was once one of the world’s leading power producers and by the end of 1990 it supplied more than half the electricity in Africa.

What is particularly impressive was Eskom’s efficiency. In its 1994 annual report, it promoted the fact that it was the world’s lowest-cost producer of electricity.

Fast-forward 25 years and Eskom is a shadow of its former self. It is unable to keep the lights on and South Africans are now paying more than ever for this unstable electricity supply.
 
It's easy. Stop bleeding money by supplying non paying customers. Stop wasteful and fruitless expenditure. Stop corruption with illegal tenders.

2 years later they will have excess electricity supply.

Just cut non paying customers and prevent load shedding for paying customers. This so "load reduction" nonsense is exactly that nonsense. Cut and if you feel generous give them a couple of hours of free electricity between 1am and 4am.
 
cavedog said:
It's easy. Stop bleeding money by supplying non paying customers. Stop wasteful and fruitless expenditure. Stop corruption with illegal tenders.

2 years later they will have excess electricity supply.

Just cut non paying customers and prevent load shedding for paying customers. This so "load reduction" nonsense is exactly that nonsense. Cut and if you feel generous give them a couple of hours of free electricity between 1am and 4am.
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Not so "easy" actually. The corruption goes so deep........ Will take a couple of decades and then they won't even reach the surface.
 
RedViking said:
Not so "easy" actually. The corruption goes so deep........ Will take a couple of decades and then they won't even reach the surface.
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That is unfortunately the problem. It's not easy because it's so deep but the plan is easy and simple and will get results but it will never happen.
 
cavedog said:
That is unfortunately the problem. It's not easy because it's so deep but the plan is easy and simple and will get results but it will never happen.
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Not in a country run by mafia and dictators, no. For every person that is pushing towards what is right, there is a 1000 pushing the opposite way. Also considering how corrupt the legal system is and those in power..... yikes!
 
RedViking said:
Not in a country run by mafia and dictators, no. For every person that is pushing towards what is right, there is a 1000 pushing the opposite way. Also considering how corrupt the legal system is and those in power..... yikes!
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Mafia and dictators? What is he talking about? Are you confusing us with Zimbabwe?
 
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There are 2 other problems that are not mention above. They got lots of persons appointed who does not know how to spell work. Mostly buy from bEE suppliers / contractors.
 
Hanno Labuschagne said:
Turning Eskom around

Eskom was once one of the world’s leading power producers and by the end of 1990 it supplied more than half the electricity in Africa.

What is particularly impressive was Eskom’s efficiency. In its 1994 annual report, it promoted the fact that it was the world’s lowest-cost producer of electricity.

Fast-forward 25 years and Eskom is a shadow of its former self. It is unable to keep the lights on and South Africans are now paying more than ever for this unstable electricity supply.
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Are you saing that eskom was great when it were managed by the NP/Whitehams
 
Not sure what the article contains but surely the title alone is click bait and fake news? Any member of the media still giving any "turnaround" plan any form of press is no better than an internet troll? Where is that little thing called journalistic integrity?
 
I have no idea how you can call Eskom great pre 94. We had regular blackouts / power failures / load curtailment before. Besides most of the population never had electricity. Half of Africa supply doesn't say much either.
 
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WalkWithMe said:
I have no idea how you can call Eskom great pre 94. We had regular blackouts before. Besides most of the population never had electricity. Half of Africa supply doesn't say much either.
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Regular black outs ? Thats racist.

For real though, what black outs or are you just making up things to suit your own agenda ? Take a look at Eskom own statistics on load shedding/blackouts , after 2000 we started to see the first failings on the grid leading into 2008 when we had our first actual partial/full grid failure which was still minimal to an actual complete national blackout.

Do you know what a blackout is ? It is a complete shutdown of the grid and a blackout takes weeks and in some cases months to restart but you somehow claim that we had regular blackouts pre 94.

Such a clown.
 
WalkWithMe said:
I have no idea how you can call Eskom great pre 94. We had regular blackouts before. Besides most of the population never had electricity. Half of Africa supply doesn't say much either.
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Lol, Zuma maths?

Just image how many Africans in the rest of Africa had electricity if one company in South Africa provided more than half the capacity of 53 other countries combined. Nigeria alone has 3 times our population..

Don't spread fake news ok dude.
 
John Tempus said:
Regular black outs ? Thats racist.

For real though, what black outs or are you just making up things to suit your own agenda ? Take a look at Eskom own statistics on load shedding/blackouts , after 2000 we started to see the first failings on the grid leading into 2008 when we had our first actual partial/full grid failure which was still minimal to an actual complete national blackout.

Do you know what a blackout is ? It is a complete shutdown of the grid and a blackout takes weeks and in some cases months to restart but you somehow claim that we had regular blackouts pre 94.

Such a clown.
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Ok get technical we had regular power outages / load curtailment in Gauteng pre 94
Were around pre 94
 
grok said:
Lol, Zuma maths?

Just image how many Africans in the rest of Africa had electricity if one company in South Africa provided more than half the capacity of 53 other countries combined. Nigeria alone has 3 times our population..

Don't spread fake news ok dude.
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Half the countries never had electricity supply! That is the point. Claiming Eskom supplied half the continent when it only supplied a very small minority of the population is not the same thing. No Zuma maths from me.
 
WalkWithMe said:
Ok get technical we had regular power outages / load curtailment in Gauteng pre 94
Were around pre 94
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BS. You might have had power disconnections due to utility bills not being paid which was common place dating back pre94 but actual load shedding / outages was not the issue. Shutting off electricity for non payment is what Eskom should have done post-94 but for conveniently they just didn't do it until municipality debt grew to billions today.

Tell me another made up story, I am enjoying your fiction.
 
WalkWithMe said:
Half the countries never had electricity supply! That is the point. Claiming Eskom supplied half the continent when it only supplied a very small minority of the population is not the same thing. No Zuma maths from me.
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Stop using bath salts, seriously. Eskom was the main power supplier for the African continent pre-94. If you cant understand what that means then perhaps you should not even comment on this.

You are aware that the majority of African countries pre-94 were run by black governments already and had majority if not entirely black populations who utilized the electricity fed to their country by Eskom ?

I cry a tear for SA knowing someone with your fiction-based mindset is allowed to vote.
 
My experience was, rather certain municipalities were better wired than others, meaning in some you could have a standby machine hardly having a job running only for maintanance once a month, while in others the street wiring was in poor shape giving you unstable supply havoc with electronics. I saw a great improvement here during the 1990's upwards. Now the new supply is suspect. Then arrived huge A noise introduced back in the system from informal setlements, it so horrofic you could here the difference by extending a probe through your car window and listen to the AC transmission as it changes from town to town. not sure if anybody pay attention to this at all.
 
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