Zambia's power woes: All roads lead to Kariba Dam

Cray said:
The OP said the following "Yet another case of Africa's inability to maintain infrastructure..." as to say this is something typical to Africa that isn't happening elsewhere in the world. Why not just say "Another example of humanity's inability to maintain infrastructure". Am not one to think that Africa is a garden of eden but the harping on about Africa from some posters is tiresome.
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Yeah dams all over the world collapsing. I mean look at Hoover Dam - one big leak eh? They never maintained it...
 
People can't face or say the truth because you'll hurt someones feelings.........................

This is the problem in this world today is no accountability and just look the other way.
 
Botha22 said:
Those comments about Dirtbin replacing infrastructure and modernizing, what a difference 9 years make.
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100% what a difference 9 years makes.

Durban was on a relatively good wicket 9 years ago in terms of doing the right things, and then the ANC decided to go "Hold my beer" and completely fsck everything up.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Considerably shorter than the "still unfixed" things are currently, but at the same time the scale of the damage was considerably smaller at the time.
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I don't remember the golf course and riverside road flooding this last time?
 
Cray said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dam_failures_in_the_United_States

:rolleyes:
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"Heavy rainfall caused it to collapse on November 6, 1977,"
"the dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water."

While there are a few that failed, many were built in the 1800's and failed very early on. Many also failed due to natural events as above.

So yeah, i'm not saying you're wrong - there are a few that just failed. but i don't think Africa's dam maintenance these days can be compared at all to the maintenance done in other countries.
 
ToxicBunny said:
100% what a difference 9 years makes.

Durban was on a relatively good wicket 9 years ago in terms of doing the right things, and then the ANC decided to go "Hold my beer" and completely fsck everything up.
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Yep. Floods, 2021 riots, mayoral corruption and the contruction mafia - odds are stacked against Durban at the moment.
 
ToxicBunny said:
100% what a difference 9 years makes.

Durban was on a relatively good wicket 9 years ago in terms of doing the right things, and then the ANC decided to go "Hold my beer" and completely fsck everything up.
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It was, I remember even the difference from 2015 to 2020
 
ToxicBunny said:
Considerably shorter than the "still unfixed" things are currently, but at the same time the scale of the damage was considerably smaller at the time.
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Sure about that? I recall a schitload of bridges washed away during domoina.
 
ponder said:
Sure about that? I recall a schitload of bridges washed away during domoina.
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Yeah, but they were all fixed relatively quickly, within 2 years or so from what I remember. I will give SANRAL and the Province some credit in that most major bridges and roads were fixed inside of 2 years.

There are areas in Durban where the city itself has literally done sweet FSCK all for more than 2 years now in terms of damaged roads. In my area we have a running fight with the city on 3 different areas that were damaged by the floods and they've done the absolute bare minimum to get cars to be able to cross the area of road and nothing else, but there is absolutely no way that it is actually safe or up to even the oldest standards for road construction.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah, but they were all fixed relatively quickly, within 2 years or so from what I remember. I will give SANRAL and the Province some credit in that most major bridges and roads were fixed inside of 2 years.
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I'm not disputing things being fixed quickly as that's a fact, things started happening immediately after.
What I'm questioning is the amount of infrastructure damage from domoina vs current. I recall LOTS of roads, rail, bridges being washed away and I don't think the recent damage approaches the level of '84.


ToxicBunny said:
There are areas in Durban where the city itself has literally done sweet FSCK all for more than 2 years now in terms of damaged roads. In my area we have a running fight with the city on 3 different areas that were damaged by the floods and they've done the absolute bare minimum to get cars to be able to cross the area of road and nothing else, but there is absolutely no way that it is actually safe or up to even the oldest standards for road construction.
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Good luck with that, will probably drag on for ages.
 
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