Zuma wrong on 1994 household electricity in South Africa

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Zuma wrong on household electricity. About 50% of homes had access in 1994

South African President Jacob Zuma claims that 34% of households had access to electricity in 1994. Available data, some of it from his own office, suggests he is wrong. By 1994 it was about 50%.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Serious? not more than 50? Jislaaik

 

[LazyLion]

I would love to see a graph of how much of that 50% were actually PAYING for their electricity compared to today!

 

[Magnum]

I would love to see a graph of how much of that 50% were actually PAYING for their electricity compared to today!

Now you racist Gary...

 

[LazyLion]

Now you racist Gary...

I know, I'm white. Apparently it's a given!

 

[FiestaST]

Useless Zoomer

 

[kianm]

Figures are not the man's strongest point

 

[kianm]

Figures are not the man's strongest point, pardon him

 

[R13...]

I would love to see a graph of how much of that 50% were actually PAYING for their electricity compared to today!

Not easy to figure seeing as there was effectively a consumer boycott in the township at that time. I don't even think they were cut off, the on,y services cut off was refuse collection. I think.

 

[Vegeta]

Who cares? Even if only 1% had electricity compared to 90% today is that an excuse?
So are we just going to say that because murder is up 50% compared to decades ago we're just going to leave it at that now.

Wouldn't expanding access to electricity prompt you to expand supply? Or am I expecting too much?
Would you at no point look at your rate of expansion and foresee problems? Or are people at Eskom and Government required to leave logic at the door or gtfo?

Is it acceptable for a President to say oh well apartheid caused it and i'm too stupid and unwilling to fix it. I can't even offer you hope just blame apartheid the end thank you and goodnight. Because they seem unable to fix anything apartheid caused in their own words... why vote for them if they can't offer anything better than apartheid and its problems? Because you had fokkol and now you still have fokkol and the President is saying he's going to give you fokkol because its not his problem it's apartheids problem and he can do fokkol about. Zuma: "Thanks for coming and thanks for your vote I'm loving my new house, stop complaining about your shhitty house because apartheid caused it not me, cheers."

 

[Hemi300c]

Only idiots listen to him or believe him.

 

[kevinswan007]

Who writes these articles, a 12 year old? Its all over the place and confusing.

 

[HavocXphere]

Either way....they connected 30%+ more of SA and added +- zero baseload capacity. Big surprise now there isn't enough electricity. Glorious ANC planning at work...

 

[ozoned]

Well, everybody checked the figures and rounded up or down to 50 percent ...

I am particularly impressed with the Professor of Economics who was consulted and
ventured that a survey of 9000 households was not very big and might have a margin of
error. Perhaps AfrikaCheck should have chekked with an actual Professor of statistical guessing
and learned that they can use a sample size of less than thirty and claim valid conclusions as long
as the "P" value is carefully cherry picked.

At any rate, thank you to all who participated and inputted and finally conclusively concluded
that the Aluminium smelters and Eskom tariff formulas have definitively nothing to do with the
lack of electrical capacity.

There u have it, El Excellency has spoken and Afrika has Chekked and from now on, anybody
who tries to blame the Smelters will be laughed out of town on a three-legged pony.