They postponed it by 3 days. But it’s going down for 6 months. What are the chances they avoid this situation for 6 months?
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I laughed at “What are the chances they avoid this situation for 6 months?”
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O my word … the absolute “sinnelose gebruik van woorde” from Mantashe and Gordhan.
Erger as staatskaping? Oh really?
Well, he is not completely wrong. In terms of what it costs the economy, it is worse. And if you read the context of the article, that is what he tries to say apparently.
I think he is wrong with his 6-month estimate. It takes like 18 months of planning to bring a power station down and do the maintenance. Again, that number is never considered by the people who figure that the current CEO is to blame for everything. He took over the job essentially as we hit the pandemic (November 2019), which with all the lock-downs and slowdowns means he’s barely had time to show what can be done, 12 months at best.
Of course, people like Mantashe and kie has to say these things. There’s an election about 15 months away.
It boggles my mind how Mantashe can say what he says, when he works for the same Shareholders, actively involved in energy, yet he nails Eskom every chance he gets.
I threw up a bit in my mouth … that is how sick I am from the senseless words.
And bugger elections, cannot wait to see the ANC numbers this time around.
No, actually not. He is a politician. This is exactly the kind of thing I expect. In financial terms, this response is “already priced in”.
So, we think we have problems …
“People have been stealing copper out of [distribution] substations, they’ve been shooting up insulators, they’ve been targeted by vandalism for a very long time,” said Weiss. But, he added, the rise of domestic extremism in the U.S. has made security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure even more concerning. “Now you got all these right wing crazies that want to do real harm to our society,” Weiss said.
My quote of the day:
“l met the board of Eskom yesterday. I have directed them to meet and act with a great sense of urgency in order to ensure that the management of Eskom gets the country out of level six (6) load-shedding with immediate effect,” said Minister Gordhan.
It’s a trap, from that famous space movie…
Yet Another emergency created (and no I am not saying it’s not real but that it was created), and guess how we solve that, mo money without oversight…
Don’t spit out yer coffee yet, plenty time ahead to do that 
Groetnis
the same story the last 20 years … what Sarel said.
Carefully crafted crisis to print some more moola … but where I’m hitting the end of my tether now, the stupid silly words, “strong words” they use thinking they are impressing" voters.
This is going to really bite them hard all hard … time’s up.
In the mean time can we expect a better LS schedule after the ANC conference??
Of course!!!
Sjoe … quite a summary of it all.
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Loadshedding is starting to irritate me as well. Every time I reconnect I have to buy 2.5kWx1/6h =~0.4kWh (10 min to maximum capacity, taking 5kW as capacity) for my inverter to reach capacity again. With three loadshedding slots per day, that is ~1.2kWh.
I thought that I would be able to get around that by letting my big loads only come online 10 minutes after loadshedding, but it seems like the ramp rate is a maximum and the inverter will only start ramping if there is a demand to ramp, so effectively I have to buy power to let the inverter ramp?
sounds to me like a 21st-century problem, you with your solar system and all that.
He is really annoying me lately, deeply so.
“… the damage to us all is now increasingly difficult to bear. This increasing callousness and separation from reality will eventually have to cost the ANC a lot of votes.”
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