A state of disaster was declared in Gauteng today.
Ergo, load-shedding has been fixed by the government in Gauteng.
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And do not forget that Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique and Botswana get uninterrupted power…
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Yeah, not sure about Zim. My internet pal is there, so LS is well known to him, and all the Victron stuff he sells there. 
As far as I know, Jim gets uninterrupted supply, but it is way less than demand, so Jim rotates supply and do cutoffs internally.
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Their demands are extremely modest though. I often tell people that Namibia’s entire economy is probably about as big as one large suburb of Johannesburg. They need about 4TWh a year, South Africa needs over 200TWh a year. That’s literally 2% of what South Africa makes. And then they also supply more than half of their use from their own hydro generators up in the North, and up to 8% from solar by now. What remains (which would be 1% or less of what South Africa generates) also doesn’t have to be bought only from South Africa… there are other countries in SAPP too.
It really is no surprise that Namibia has little to no power outages. If you don’t ask for much, it is easy to get everything you need. What is more, if you cut off Namibia, you gain maybe 1% extra energy… and you lose access to imports from Ruacana… not much, but there is some.
The same argument is true for Zimbabwe, in terms of how much they really demand. It’s probably about 1% of SA’s capacity… and they are already off half the day.
We could probably… maybe… at a squeeze, drop one level of load shedding if we get rid of these “leeches”. But then we also lose access to imports from SAPP (Southern African Power Pool), including Cahora Bassa (Mozambique is not going to happily give us that power if we’re not wheeling it back), and since South Africa currently relies on imports… also for blackstarting… it would be an exceptionally bad move to mess with the status quo.
The other thing I just googled into, while checking my numbers, is that Namibia is aiming to increase solar to offset domestic consumption by 2024, and to become a net exporter by 2030. That’s how you freakin’ do it! Gwedie can learn from these guys!
Botswana on the other hand is almost self-sufficient now. They built a new plant that came online in 2014. The same group (Power Africa, a US based thing by the looks of it) is also involved there, the plan being to install solar. That may well mean that soon, Namibia and Botswana will supply each other (there will almost always be sun somewhere over that large area of land) and rely on SA much less.
Re the original question, nope, sorry…
So the ideology and BEE rules the roost, no IQ is stronger…
They want to fire 500 white males by 2025, most are maintenance workers 
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Man, this is pulling apart by the seams, one thread at a time. 
15 posts were split to a new topic: In South Africa … Russian news
Just in. Another one of my tiny “temp probes” is when insurers make moves:
Maybe it is simply just a case of “rather safe than sorry”.
But when big businesses make moves, like the insurers … just consider, it takes a lot for them to move.
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Paper contracts is such a western colonial thing ain’t meaning nothing… Apart from the fact that there are no consequences at all, no accountability.
EAF in green: Planned outages Yellow, Unplanned Red and OCLF or Other in Black.
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Thinking on that, if paper contracts are a Western colonial thing (I agree btw), then the EAF is too.
Gov has seen that and “signed” for it if you want. 
Yes, and the net result is like toilet paper… Single use strictly, never to be seen again
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You know, I do apologise in advance for this, and feel welcome to tell me I’m naive or something, but I think there is something a little tiny bit… well… prejudicial about saying contracts is a Western thing.
Sure… the practice of putting things on paper, stamping it or putting a signature on it, maybe… but this goes a little deeper than that, does it not?
In Bolivia, there is an ancient temple called Puma Pumku, believed to be built by some Inca tribe around 500AD. It is incredibly well engineered, precisely cut, with interlocking joints. It is so advanced that Westerners often opine that it must have been built by someone else. Aliens maybe…
Think carefully about that. They are saying: These people were savages, unlike us westerners, there is no way they built this.
No my friend, they may have done things differently, but other races also get things done in their way…
The trouble isn’t Western, African, Colonial or whatever. The trouble is that the people who should do the job are too busy, and the ones who show up to do the job (the politicians) probably shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near it.
Those words are the words of the current ruling party, many utterances on TV and in articles. That is the whole thing behind de-colonialisation btw. The burning of paintings, destruction of monuments and the paper not worth writing on. Otherwise, you can look at all the court cases, and the instance that all non party people wants to overturn things they want to do, in court, when it was written on said paper.
It is the selective use or ignoring of what was written and signed, to suit the moment. A criminal enterprise… And no it has nothing to do with black vs white for me, only about actions. But before I derail this further, look see here as posted above, by them:
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Of course, those who have known me for a while have probably noticed that my final paragraph above is basically Chesterton. He wrote in some British newspaper, the Cleveland Press, a hundred years ago:
The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
I also think of other places in the world where similar things happens. Deep corruption (1 billion growing into 6… that’s in Euro) and someone poisoned. Not unlike our own Eskom saga.
We’re not really that special, and while it is absolutely necessary to be wary of cultural differences, I think the human propensity for what religious people call sin transcends culture. That is the one thing humanity really has in common, the one thing that properly binds us together.
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It also goes way back too. There was a time, a man’s word was his bond … irrespective of nationality.
Yeah, today a LOT is missed with that “perception”. Adding to what you are saying, there was not one “westerner” around when the pyramids were built. When the Chinese wall was built. The great cities in Africa.
The context Sarel brought that in is applicable today and today only. Jan v Riebeeck has even been blamed man!
So we must be careful to not fall into division, to be PC to the n’th degree, when politicians create that division, hammering on a construct to divide us, read, garner votes using feelings, to create “tribes” if you want.
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And there I get that one answer I’ve been wondering about … now lets see HOW they do it.
https://ewn.co.za/0001/01/01/coct-plans-to-shield-capetonians-from-power-cuts-within-3-years-mayor