ESKOM is desperately trying to recoup money owed by municipalities – Soweto, in particular, is making that task all the more difficult. ESKOM, South Africa’s national electricity provider, had an exceptionally shocking year in 2018. Financial losses reached dismal new depths. Irregularities, both fiscally and operationally, left the state owned enterprise floundering in the doldrums..
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Soweto owes ESKOM R 17 billion, half of the total national debt – Just cut their bloody electricity to this township!
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South Africans should brace for more rolling blackouts as the power grid is unstable and cannot produce enough power to sustain the country
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Eskom warned of wider controlled power cuts on Monday after six additional generating units unexpectedly went offline. The power utility launched stage 4 load shedding, which requires the shedding of 4 000 megawatts from the grid. The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry is shocked by the sudden dramatic increase in load shedding. “How is..
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Sorry SA, but we need more money, Eskom pleads – Eskom is asking for a 15% tariff increase over the next three years – but in the same breath employs more workers with hefty salaries
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Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe made a desperate plea for higher Eskom tariffs over the next three years on Monday, as well as for more money from the government, while apologising to SA for the mess the utility is in. Hadebe was speaking in Cape Town at public hearings held by the National Energy Regulator of..
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Criminals target Johannesburg clinics, facilities without electricity after cable theft – Services at the clinic have been temporarily suspended
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The Westbury clinic in Johannesburg was left without electricity after it was tampered with the facility’s main power cable said the health and social development department on Wednesday.
The clinic’s operating manager said in a statement he saw an unknown man running from the building on Tuesday afternoon after a loud blow noise was heard. He also noted smoke from the same direction as the bang.
“The fire brigade was called for precaution and the patients were evacuated. It was a relief to know that there was no fire and the smoke was of wires that burned when the cables were cut, “the department added.
Due to damage to the main power cable, the generator, which serves as backup, could not be switched on.
Services at the clinic have been temporarily suspended and all vaccines have been sent to a nearby clinic for storage.
City Power is working to restore power to the clinic.
Protea South Clinic in Soweto also experiences power cuts due to residents i
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Rolling Blackouts in South Africa Because Treasonous ANC Regime Sells Best Coal To China and Uses Proceeds Elsewhere?
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Despite, (or thanks to Billions in foreign investment in Eskom), 7.2 Million tons of SA’s best coal is destined for China from Richards Bay Harbor while South Africans suffer under rolling blackouts. 36 Chinese ships are waiting for coal to be loaded in Richards Bay Harbour. Each ship takes about 36 hours to be loaded with 200,000 tons of coal per ship average. The coal is Grade A anthracite.
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Shocking news, Eskom’s big coal whopper and they would like to point the finger to you the consumer for using too much electricity
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There is no shortage of coal, as Eskom claims. Instead, the coal is piling up at the mines, uncollected by the utility, Anna Marth Ott, CEO of Middelburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said yesterday.
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DA says:- Eskom is a ‘zombie’ state-owned entity
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Cape Town – The DA on Monday said its private member’s bill aimed at dismantling Eskom’s monopoly would be an interesting test to see whether the ANC was serious about viable solutions to bring South Africa out of its economic crisis.
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You’re paying more than double what you should for electricity in SA
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Energy expert Ted Blom says that South Africans are paying more than double what they should be for electricity in the country, and it’s funding Eskom’s corruption and mismanagement. Eskom this week reported a loss after tax of R2.3 billion for the year ended March 31 from a profit of R900 million 12 months earlier…
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Price of Eskom electricity expected to double by 2021
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Buckling under the strain of seemingly insurmountable debt, Eskom looks set to implement massive electricity tariff hikes aimed at staving off a complete financial and structural collapse. South Africans are inevitably left to foot the exorbitant bill, caused by gross mismanagement, and nepotism, leading to R19 billion in irregular expenditure, coupled with a long list..
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South Africa’s electricity system is falling apart – and it is much bigger than just Eskom
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Load shedding has returned to South Africa in recent weeks after striking Eskom workers sabotaged the national grid. However, this is not the biggest problem facing the country’s electricity system. MyBroadband has received new research on power outages in South Africa over the past two years, which shows a drastic increase in the number of..
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ESKOM wants a 30% price hike as part of its plan to recover tens of billions of rands
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The power utility had requested a 30% hike as part of its plan to recover tens of billions of rands lost to coal procurement, as well as the lower than expected electricity sales between 2014 and 2017, which some have labelled as the “Gupta years”.
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ConCourt rules on new owners’ historical debt.
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The Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled that new home owners are not liable for historical debt taken over from previous owners. Municipalities such as Tshwane, eThekwini and Ekurhuleni — as well as the cooperative and governance minister — argued against a landmark high court judgment in 2016, which made a similar ruling. The high court..
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White Slaves In South Africa: Black Municipality Raises Taxes by 16000% and disconnects Electricity as Blackmail
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The saying that you should not expect results from the work you did not do, does not seen to apply in South Africa where 85% of the Taxpayers did NOT vote for the ruling party. As from July 2015 Thabazimbi Municipality increased the rates and taxes of the mine from R660,000 per annum to a..
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While mostly white South Africa has countrywide Blackouts, construction at overdue new Power Station is on African time with shortened working hours.
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Jacob Zuma alluded to white people claiming that they do things better than blacks in his State of the Nation address. Let us look at what is arguably one of the most important and biggest projects undertaken by his black regime which should be a flagship example. The state-owned utility’s inability to complete the Kusile..
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