Stage 8...how will you cope?

[Grunder]

It most likely won't but let's at least hope that this has an impact on upcoming national elections.

It most likely won't...

 

[petri oosthuizen]

True Story........
Went to the Municipality, to query my Water account that spiked from R 400 average to a whopping R 2503.
Called the Guy reading the meter, asked him to come check ASAP, something's wrong.
His reply??
"Ja met die Eskom wat af is en die gepompery kan daar LUG IN DIE PYP gewees het".

Nee Fok.
Fucking Boswell Wilkie Show, this.

 

[Mev Vis Arend]

Het julle n druk pompie om daai water in die huis te kry Nannie?

Ja, Chris.

 

[sidetrack]

I wonder if the countdown on Eskom's website is to celebrate 100 years or it's demise ?

 

[Seank]

Very interesting visual. So, to sum it up, from 1948 to 1994, 31 new Power Plants were commissioned, and after 1994 only 5?

Yes, correct but there was power crisis in the 1950's to 1975 give or take, was big push by mines, who wanted cheaper electricity, and obviously the NATS wanted more money from GOLD, so they build more power stations. But the way they went about it was brilliant, led to cheapest power in the world and they still made a profit as you know by exporting. But I don't even think the NATS, planned for such population growth. Sadly, one needs to think about it this way, there should still be surplus, because the mines don't consume what they did. But pure lack of foresight and planning and we sit with the results.

"I often wonder how this country would have turned out if the ANC ran its SOE's as efficiently as the NP ."

The NATS were efficient and run the businesses well, but they where skimming just as much as they do now, but it worked so who was to argue.

 

[Seank]

I wonder if the countdown on Eskom's website is to celebrate 100 years or it's demise ?

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Actually sad, because the guy who came up with Eskom was actually brilliant, but I think the leader a 100 years ago was the best statesman the country ever had - Jan Smuts.

 

[sidetrack]

Are they running the gas turbines now or kicking the stage 6 ball down the street till March for budget ?

 

[Kaboef]

Tans hou Vuma Fibre se batterye in ons buurt net so n uur tydens loadshedding. Dan vrek die fibre lyne.

Dan klim die verveelde huisvrouens op die straat Whatsapp groep en kla steen en been omdat die internet af is.

Jy sou dink die wereld vergaan omdat hulle nie kan Instragram of lelike kiekies stuur op n hokkiegroep nie.

 

[JohnB]

Toemaar, hier iewers is `n thread waar `n optimis jou moed inpraat en vertel dat dinge in SA eintlik OK is

Dinge beweeg nou met `n spoed agteruit. Ek is bekommerd oor my kinders.

 

[the_BOBNOB]

Tans hou Vuma Fibre se batterye in ons buurt net so n uur tydens loadshedding. Dan vrek die fibre lyne.

Dan klim die verveelde huisvrouens op die straat Whatsapp groep en kla steen en been omdat die internet af is.

Jy sou dink die wereld vergaan omdat hulle nie kan Instragram of lelike kiekies stuur op n hokkiegroep nie.

Kyk of jy kan OpenServe kry - Afrihost doen a free install met OpenServe (het laas nog)

OpenServe se fibre werk anders as Vuma sin - Vuma se fibre chow baie meer krag en OpenServe virtually niks nie .
Ons het oorgeskakel na OpenServe en nog nooit weer 'n single outage gehad nie.
Het paar issues gehad op Vuma

 

[Fuzzy Muzzy]

I feel for you , thankfully in CT we have it a bit better .
A lot of companies are taking big strain at the moment , that is with Stage 4 and 6 , stage 8 will be the death of a lot of them , and that is the really sad part .

I'm not sure we are much better, we are off for a total of 10 hours today & tonight.

I have a generator that I cart between home and work which helps a lot, it keeps my doors open but the big problem is not me, its my suppliers. Many of them are holding on by their fingernails, i've already started to see service standards start to drop, also I've noticed that their staff that used to be on top of their game are now no longer there, replaced with school leavers for a third of the cost

Always had a freezer loaded to the brim with meat - I don't really know why, apart maybe from jumping at "specials".
Been emptying that heap for a few months now and will keep at it until it only contains meat for a week or so.
We find forgotten treasures which is nice but the risk and gemors from a vrot freezer is just not worth it anymore.

Have an inverter but lately saving it to increase service life.

More than forty years ago I had poor aunt that lived in the gom part of Vrededorp and my father was surprised that she did not have a fridge when he took a meat hamper to her.

She would buy meat when possible and eat it on the day of purchase.
I always remember that and sometimes think I am heading into that direction.

Typing this might explain my loaded freezer in a way.

I sold my deep freeze.. it stopped being used before Covid.. gone are the days where okes can just fill a freezer with meat

 

[sidetrack]

Openserve is goed ja ek het ook nog nooit n outage geahad nie

 

[RobD]

Yes, correct but there was power crisis in the 1950's to 1975 give or take, was big push by mines, who wanted cheaper electricity, and obviously the NATS wanted more money from GOLD, so they build more power stations. But the way they went about it was brilliant, led to cheapest power in the world and they still made a profit as you know by exporting. But I don't even think the NATS, planned for such population growth. Sadly, one needs to think about it this way, there should still be surplus, because the mines don't consume what they did. But pure lack of foresight and planning and we sit with the results.

"I often wonder how this country would have turned out if the ANC ran its SOE's as efficiently as the NP ."

The NATS were efficient and run the businesses well, but they where skimming just as much as they do now, but it worked so who was to argue.

If they were stealing as much and it worked, as you say, how did they do it?

 

[BLK]

And who have we got to thank.Lets get tough on BEEEE.

 

[Kaboef]

Treurnicht en Verwoerd was toe nie verkeerd nie.

 

[Seank]

If they were stealing as much and it worked, as you say, how did they do it?

Pretty much through mining interests I believe. The mines basically forced the government into supplying below cost power. The government of the time then granted mining rights and received kick backs where miners and multinationals didn't really care about the environment. Can't remember the books, but They benefited through the increase in taxation, and cheap labour. They also said the 60 & 70's corruption was crude compared to the 80's, but it's ended up in in contracts for Koeberg's all types of interesting speculations, Arms deals, all the way down to the "broederbond" If anything the systemic corruptions going back a 100 years in this country does provide for interesting reading

Just an ex-tour guide... so the history might be skew... Still damned interesting... And still nothing has changed

 

[sidetrack]

Pretty much through mining interests I believe. The mines basically forced the government into supplying below cost power. The government of the time then granted mining rights and received kick backs where miners and multinationals didn't really care about the environment. Can't remember the books, but They benefited through the increase in taxation, and cheap labour. They also said the 60 & 70's corruption was crude compared to the 80's, but it's ended up in in contracts for Koeberg's all types of interesting speculations, Arms deals, all the way down to the "broederbond" If anything the systemic corruptions going back a 100 years in this country does provide for interesting reading

Just an ex-tour guide... so the history might be skew... Still damned interesting... And still nothing has changed

Nobody cared about the environment in the 80's

 

[Kaboef]

And still nothing has changed

Except that we dont have power, trains, water, a postal service, roads, and so on.

 

[Lars]

I don't know how old this is , but one thing about our politicians is that they are way out of touch with reality

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I am not saying the word

 

[Dolf]

Yup.
I'll move to Soweto.