Getting back some capacity is somewhat predictable, based on the little or bad maintenance they actually do, quality of parts and its availability. Also on how good or bad their predicted timelines are, usually badder.
Losing capacity suddenly just points to the unreliability of plant, how badly it is run, how bad what little maintenance is done really is, and all the sabotage and pilfering to make a quick buck.
GrumpyGroetnis
In other news, we can say … yeah, o’right, fine … 
I’m disappointed. I take my faith seriously (CS Lewis famously said this is either of the utmost importance, or no importance at all, there is no middle ground), but sometimes my brothers do really embarrassing things. Case in point.
Also, technically president is a downgrade from head justice. Just saying.
Edit: On this line of thought… brace yourselves for lots of eschatological arguments of the premillennial kind now that there is an outright war in Israel. If those words made no sense to you… don’t worry.
Janee … that powderkeg … 'nugh said though.
What DOES irk me a lot though is this ex-Judge and ex-Zuma grabbing at “religion” " Nogal direct lines" it seems nogal.
Do not like that at ALL!
Religion move over there, some more … good…
Politicians move to the other side, go on some more, more … MORE!!! Go very very far to the other side! Stay there!
The law, you stand right here in the middle.
Now you all “Stay in your lanes!!!”
On that topic, I expect two things to happen.
If history is anything to go by, it will be over soon. Israel will sit on more land than before the conflict, and will give some of it back in return for a promise of peace. And then the process repeats.
It is a complex situation not easily summed up in a short post. The anger from the one side is understandable. But killing civilians going to a music concert… sorry… not acceptable in ANY world.
Unfortunately not possible. The argument is self-defeating. The position that differing philosophies should stay in their lanes is in itself philosophy that should… ideally… stay in its lane.
Secularism is not neutral. Pluralism is as close as you get.
There isn’t anything wrong with Mogoeng’s statement. I merely find it embarrassing. Because it has the potential to not happen, and then it hands ammunition to people I don’t want to hand it to.
The people abducted will be killed if Israel retaliates without “warnings”.
Also, read of this mother who identified her daughter in a video shared of the abductees, on the back of a truck between militants, head hung low, scarcely dressed.
It is reported, to be confirmed, that Americans were also abducted who visited the concert. Quite a few visitors from other countries too.
HKGK … and not for Israel.
Also to note, the amount of countries voicing their disgust at what was done to Israel, also caught my attention. And yes, the same ole same saying the opposite, like the #($*% ANC again now too.
Ja boet … this may go “south” very fast … on top of the Ukrainian war.
In other news …
And …
On the topic of things going wrong, anyone notice the amendments proposed to the RAF (road accident fund)?
Many medical aids depend on getting paid back from the RAF to recover moneys spent on things that are later also covered (legally) by the RAF. The amendments seek to make this more difficult, and to replace lump-sum payments with monthly payments.
Of course that means medical aid tariffs will rise, or the cover will be lowered.
I also hear the CIAG (Cape Independence Advocacy Group) sent an Ultimatum to our Western Cape overlords for a referendum next year, at the same time as the national elections.
This is all going to be very interesting…
And Mantsha weighs in …
He is a clever one this one … plays nicely with words.
Yeah, pointing a big fat finger at his…comrade
…and that points that every dept is a fiefdom and the leaders thereof in cabinet cannot even speak from the same hymn page
And IF we are lucky, with them pointing big fat fingers at each other, that it could maybe hopefully lead to a real proper fight between them, pulling the ANC apart into factions to weak to garner enough support.
It can be done … with ease …
SA has bidding windows, the investment, and the private sector drive but it leads nowhere as the Gov needs to ensure investors’ security, therein lies the crux it seems.
Between a weak head of state who can decide on nothing, a powerful miner in a fancy suite who runs after mice, and the Nemesis of SOE’s, back to the cave-era Grotman, we are at a disadvantage.
I liked his analogy, actually. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. And in the “west”, we do have the same analogy with rats leaving a ship.
Grotman, this made me wonder …specifically made me wonder what SOE has Grotman, sorry Gordhan, been responsible for that he has not “driven” back into the “stone age”?
Ghmpfff mainstream media, wrong as usual. Gordon is just a symptom, of a much bigger issue, ideology and NDR, the crap they inherited from Mother Russia…
This place needs some people with a business outlook, not criminal politicians (what an oxymoron) to steer the ship, and honest once to boot. People need at least some sense of capitalism, morals, honesty, LEADERSHIP and then be able to see there are suffering people. Step out the way please… (another oxymoron)
IdeologieseGroetnis
That Finance Minister Zuma appointed for “a weekend” that backfired spectacularly comes to mind.
I agree that there is a whole lot behind Grotman that we don’t know about.
But Grotman is a powerful “figurehead”, “in charge” of big SOEs. He is the “face” we as the public see, investors and international markets see. He needs to “look good”.
When that “face” gets publicly “slapped” in the media with conclusions alluding to his repeated failures, nicely summed up, everyone in and around him loses. No one wants to be close to an “EOL loser”.
Maybe ever so slowly these “powerful figureheads”, the “untouchables”, are reaching their useful limits …
And it reflects badly on his boss, the “I-Don’t-Want-To-Make-A-Decision” one who appointed and backed him.
“Seems like” Grotman’s tenure is reaching a slow painful end, back to the stone age the SOEs under his “leadership”, the “pennies dropping” on his “reigh” of failures.
Now Mr “Running-with-Mice” gloats, the other “untouchable”. His time is coming too … patience … this house of cards is getting unstable.
Under Grotman’s leadership De Ruyter was appointed.
Now we have this …
But Grotman denies that he is “delaying” the process … anyone “see any mice around”?
Crumbling one card at a time … with silence from “I-Don’t-Want-To-Make-A-Decision” … just wait for the “family meeting” of nice words and fokolie actions thereafter again.
