Cold weather in winter is self-evident even for animals, but for Eskom it is a surprise? For decades in Apartheid, before the ANC regime was given the then first world country, Eskom supplied whatever was demanded without interruption thanks to good long-term planning and maintenance measures, but now Eskom has warned about electricity faults in KwaZulu-Natal due to cold weather! The question is, is power still quietly being sent to the African #SAPP network, when we are asked to save power, for which we paid dearly with taxes? Are we also being forced to sustain and keep the rest of Africa afloat? Even Malawi’s power provider is called “Escom!”
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Does Eskom Export Electricity to #SAPP When it Uses Cold Weather as Excuse to Hide Bad Maintenance & Corruption?
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Eskom Suddenly Implements Phase 2 Rolling Blackouts, Because You Never Know When Unmaintained Machinery will Fail!
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As a result of decades worth of BBBEE, systemic corruption, wholesale plunder, bad management and lack of maintenance, the consumer is once paying the price, as Eskom has had to suddenly start load shedding again, as of Sunday, when they introduced it with phase 2, to supposedly last until Tuesday night, if everything goes according to plan.
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Black Township Protesting Power Cuts, Blocks Eskom From Inspecting Sub Station, After Racist “Gangster” Mayor Implements Extra Load Shedding on Top of Eskom’s!
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Gangsterism and cutting off your nose to spite your face, seems to be a recurring theme in #TheAfricanWay: Amsterdam in Mpumalanga has instituted its own internal electricity revolving power cuts, of 5 hours per day, and the Mayor refuses to speak English at community feedback meetings.
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Eskom’s #RollingBlackouts Schedule Collapses into Chaos Leaving Traffic Lights Dead in Rush Hour Despite Promises!
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Eskom’s rolling blackout load shedding system, and its published schedules, have completely collapsed, causing so much chaos that no one is sure anymore when load shedding will be applied in a particular area, further exacerbating the energy crisis.
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Should Electricity Users Pay Eskom Direct? Eskom Losing a BILLION a Month Because Corrupt Municipal Councilors Steal User’s Electricity Payments!
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Due to the to the default on forwarding payments by municipalities, Eskom is moving further into the red every month at a staggering rate of almost R1 BILLION every month! However, apart from SOWETO where users refuse to pay, most users do pay, but their payments get intercepted by corrupt Municipalities where the money is taken and fraudulently spent on luxuries and personal expenses of councilors.
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Poor South African’s Suffer #RollingBlackouts, Yet Government Officials & Black Elites Buy Lamborghini Aventador’s!
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#TheAfricanWay means “it is my turn to feast at the table and stuff everyone else”. This is clearly shown when Former Eskom Chairperson, Jabu Mabuza’s niece received her new Lamborghini Aventador, price range of Avendators is around R 9.6-million.
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Bankrupt power supplier is struggling to maintain electricity grid and diesel generator units are used to prevent #rollingblackouts
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Eskom has now gone so far as to use its emergency reserves in an effort to evade load shedding. The diesel generator units have been used to prevent the burning of candles, but the diesel fuel bill is already more than 50% over the entity’s allowable diesel consumption according to its budget. Workers claim they..
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Bankrupt Eskom holds ANC regime hostage with ongoing #RollingBlackOuts
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It is not only the ANC’s president who lied to foreign countries and in parliament about SA’s condition but also sustained on another lie. Eskom said he would ensure that no load shedding will be applied before January 13, and then the ANC’s Cyril Ramaphosa believed the lie and went on to sell the lying..
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SA’s expected economic growth is adjusted to 0.9% for 2020 – ANC regime is responsible for SA being in such a mess
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The World Bank has just adjusted South Africa’s projected economic growth to 0.9% for 2020 amid the uncertainty surrounding Eskom and load shedding. The 1.3% growth that the World Bank initially predicted for 2019 has now also been adjusted to 0.4%. In spite of these realities, the ANC clings to the ideology that got us..
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Hello darkness my old Friend! Brace for more Stage 6 load-shedding as Eskom breakdowns rise
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Stage 6 load-shedding, which has happened only once before, looks set to become a far more common occurrence as Eskom’s plant breakdowns remain at dangerously high levels. Stage 6 means 6,000MW are dropped from the grid to avoid the system becoming unstable. In Gauteng, where load-shedding intervals last four hours, Eskom customers could be without..
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#TheAfricanWay – SA Faces Extended #RollingBlackouts Due to Collapsing Infrastructure Yet Eskom Secretly Wants To Pay R1,8 BILLION (R88,000 per employee) in Performance Bonuses!
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Eskom seems to have a strange idea about what a performance bonus is and why it actually gets paid. It secretly wants to spend R1,8 BILLION on performance bonuses for the current and following 2 years, even as we face phase 4-6 loadshedding at the moment and it seems like daily rolling blackouts will be with us for quite some time.
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SA Reserve Bank’s worst-case scenario fast becoming a reality – economy to lose 1.1 percentage points in growth, leading to the loss of 125 000 job opportunities
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The SA Reserve Bank’s worst-case scenario, which would see the country’s economy lose 1.1 percentage points in growth and lead to the loss of 125 000 job opportunities, is fast becoming a reality. The central bank’s latest forecasts predict that the economy will sacrifice 0.4 percentage points in GDP growth if Eskom’s availability factor declines..
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Ramaphosa: “Surprised and shocked” – Repeats the excuses of the last twelve years on Eskom – ANC is the most brilliant thieving organization in the world but the most useless when it comes to governing
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Ramaphosa is surprised and shocked. But in 2 years of his presidency not one single person has been charged in connection with the hundreds of billions of Rands looted from places like Eskom under Zupta rule and before that under the ANC. The ANC is the most brilliant thieving organization in the world but the..
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#Rollingblackouts – To prevent further damages Eskom announce Phase 2 load shedding for Friday
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South Africans will have to prepare for more power outages this weekend after Eskom announces that Phase 2 load shedding will take effect from 09:00 to 23:00 Friday. According to their latest statement, the bankrupt state entity says their system is still vulnerable. Although the power grid units are recovering as scheduled, they also lost..
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Cyril rushes back to Eskom and cuts visit to Egypt short amidst electricity crisis which holds serious economic consequences for SA
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Opposition parties expressed their dismay when the ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, went to Egypt amidst #rollingblackouts occurred all over South-Africa this past week. He had to cut his less important visit to short and returned to South Africa to talk to the heads of Eskom about the crisis load shedding has on the finances of..
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