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This brazen and ‘illuminating’ remark was made in Afrikaans during the debate last Tuesday to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State Of The Nation Address (SONA).
“For a town that depends on tourism, not being subjected to load-shedding is life-changing.”
The load-shedding schedule app made a lekker little summary of some of the key data regarding the rotational power cuts in 2023.
Instead of laying the blame for load-shedding at the door of ‘affluent South Africans’ and their bourgeois habit of using fans to cool themselves, how about blaming the useless politicians and tenderpreneurs who destroyed the utility in the first place?
Eskom needs a new logo as much as Minister Nkoana-Mashabane needs another hole in her head.
Except for three days, officials predict there will be blackouts (between stages 1 and 3) every day throughout December.
GoodLuck’s collaboration with Versofy Solar is almost too obvious to have taken this long, and since partnering up, the band has been able to keep the vibe going even when Eskom hits all the wrong notes.
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Twitter/X is now a-buzz with local netizens in fits of giggles, with many poking fun by explaining that “everybody is really struggling with the lyrics of the new South African national anthem”.
According to the MOU in question, we should be receiving a hefty amount of generators, electric vehicles, solar PV batteries and inverters. Let’s just read the fine print carefully before we get too excited.
Thanks are due to Mr Premier for warning Cape Town citizens, but it’s hard to feel optimistic when we’re facing the darkest nights before the dawn.
Even if you don’t have the Randelas to fork out for solar, those South Africans who can harness the sun to keep the lights on deserve a pat on the back for refusing to let Eskom control their power schedule.
The ANC is ramping up their political ‘it’s-all-rainbows-and-butterflies’ shenanigans ahead of the 2024 election.
The struggle with load shedding has been real, but perhaps not as terrible as it has been for Neyamiah Eaton’s parents who are still trying to come to terms with the tragic death of their three-year-old daughter.
With our tendency to run things until they break, we should perhaps not pack away the flashlights just yet.
While some reckon a total system collapse is unlikely to occur, it is not impossible, according to The South African Reserve Bank’s Deputy Governor Kuben Naidoo who spoke of a contingency plan in case.
We’re searching for the light wherever we can.
While our politicians are fighting about who to blame for the lack of power in this country, our supermarkets are struggling to keep enough food on the shelves to feed the people.
It is rather alarming to note that only four Western Cape hospitals have been exempted from load shedding.
Calib Cassim has been appointed interim CEO of Eskom.
The City of Cape Town has announced that it will now pay cash for power fed into the local electricity grid.
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Load shedding is to blame for some KwaZulu-Natal dairy farmers’ 12 000 litres of milk turning sour.
An executive director at Agri SA said that load shedding is having a regrettable impact on the agricultural industry in the country.
It is madness that we will have to pay an increased tariff rate for just a few hours of electricity usage, a problem that the city of Cape Town is trying to budget for accordingly.
As we get deeper into 2023, we’ll be wading in ever-darker waters with stage 7 load shedding – “or higher”- forecast for the middle of the year.
Mitigating the effects of load shedding aside, a new problem has arisen; the grating noise that someone’s generator produces.
A TikTok user working at a power station in Rustenburg, North West has graciously told the country that he is responsible for switching off electricity in the area.
The particularly worrying thing about this latest bout of load shedding is that stage six may just be an appetiser for what’s to come.