Why you need to pay for Eskom corruption and mismanagement

[HartsockZA]

Reasons for you to suck me off

 

[Mirai]

If u earn any money, you are privileged and you must pay. That's why living in poor societies sucks and poor societies get poorer. Rich get richer.

 

[Obsidian1]

First part of the article was interesting then I hit this gem:



Difficult to take anybody serious who dismisses climate change so easily based only on the economics...

" Article by Andrew Kenny — a writer, engineer, and classical liberal. " - here is another gem which explains the aforementioned other gem - "classic liberal"

 

[The_Librarian]

How about no?

They had several chances to put things right, but instead they continued on the downward trajectory.

The last sentence in that article hits the nail on the head.

 

[Utterly Confused]

What the actual f?

So we must pay for their grant which they can use to pay for their electricity. Eskom would be indirectly funded by taxpayers anyway.

How about no. Start by collecting outstanding debt or cutting those municipalities off if they don't pay. The poor already get a few units free. Then cut down on their bloated workforce and start prosecuting the fsckers sabotaging the place and holding the country hostage.

Don't make an Eskom problem my problem when there's some quick wins that haven't been used...

Mike you speak a lot of sense, but unfortunately the cANCer won't be able to decipher what you have written.

 

[Johand]

I am a resident, and no, solar is not fine for me, I need full on industrial strength electricity 24 hours a day to run my air-conditioning and my swimming pool and my dishwasher and clothes washer stove and TV and lights and computers..

I would really like to understand your point. Yes - off-grid would be difficult but not impossible. Not sure what would not be 90% covered by solar and battery unless your roof area is constraint. It is easy to shift a lot of loads to when the sun is shining and rest battery is fine and grid backup during rainy days...

 

[system32]

I am a resident, and no, solar is not fine for me, I need full on industrial strength electricity 24 hours a day to run my air-conditioning and my swimming pool and my dishwasher and clothes washer stove and TV and lights and computers..

Your forgot, lights for the tennis court, electricity for heating the pool, underfloor heating, geysers in the guest house, electricity to run the 16 seat 8k 7.1 surround sound home theater...


For the rest of us Solar+Battery works pretty well - 85% of my energy comes from Solar.

 

[grok]

I’m afraid we must. If we don’t, the economic consequences for the country are calamitous

This county is ****ed anyway, the currency incumbents wiped their asses with the economy and turned us into just another failed African state.

Go dig up those old NP predictions about ANC rule, you'll find them accurate to the T..

 

[Deandbn]

That's pretty sad, so you are completely at their mercy?
I gather that you have some lekka tenders to make up for it. Each to his own.

Me, tenders.. No chance of that with bbbeee and stuff

 

[Deandbn]

And why wouldn't solar be able to run any of those things?

They probably could, but not so much at night unfortunately.

 

[Deandbn]

Industrial strength electricity? So you use 3 phase 380 volts?

Nope, unfortunately I have to make do with 220v/80a..so can't have it all on together. But I would like 3 phase and no loadshedding..

 

[Deandbn]

I would really like to understand your point. Yes - off-grid would be difficult but not impossible. Not sure what would not be 90% covered by solar and battery unless your roof area is constraint. It is easy to shift a lot of loads to when the sun is shining and rest battery is fine and grid backup during rainy days...

Hi Johan, I don't really want to go off grid. I want the government to supply me with good cheap dependable electricity 24/7 like it used to be..
But I hear what you say.. They are an incapable thieving bunch of gits.

 

[supersunbird]

I am a resident, and no, solar is not fine for me, I need full on industrial strength electricity 24 hours a day to run my air-conditioning and my swimming pool and my dishwasher and clothes washer stove and TV and lights and computers..

Those can all be solar, or do you prefer to sit in the dark with nothing or do you have a large generator?

 

[supersunbird]

Hi Johan, I don't really want to go off grid. I want the government to supply me with good cheap dependable electricity 24/7 like it used to be..
But I hear what you say.. They are an incapable thieving bunch of gits.

Everyone wants that, but wants are not realities.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I am a resident, and no, solar is not fine for me, I need full on industrial strength electricity 24 hours a day to run my air-conditioning and my swimming pool and my dishwasher and clothes washer stove and TV and lights and computers..

And? You can do all of that with solar.

 

[TelkomUseless]

What we all can learn from this is that the cANCer cannot run anything, they cannot manage anything, they cannot be trusted, they lack any intelligence or accountability. African excellence seems to be that if it all gets royaly fukked up its still a success as long as the chief and his cohorts benefit financially.

Spot on. Look at Eskom, Post Office, SABC , Driver License, SAA etc etc

So much for #blackexcellence, #afranicity whatever...

 

[noxibox]

Just recently Eskom was complaining that people aren’t buying enough electricity.

Regardless unless they are actually trying to fix Eskom, which, like rest of the ANC’s disasters, they don’t appear to be doing, there is no point giving them more money.

 

[Johand]

Just recently Eskom was complaining that people aren’t buying enough electricity.

I think the keyword here is buying. Lots of people using electricity just not paying for it. Like some municipalities...

 

[Slegdehammer67]

'Eksdom' today is the net result of utter incompetence and corruption and most probably according to the ANC at least - Apartheid...you can give a human a brain BUT you CANNOT make him think...

 

[Mekon]

If u earn any money, you are privileged and you must pay. That's why living in poor societies sucks and poor societies get poorer. Rich get richer.

Poor get poorer, rich get richer and the middle class get milked.