ESKOM CRISIS OP-ED: Dark, Dumb and Dangerous: Inside South Africa’s perfect (electrical) storm

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ESKOM CRISIS OP-ED Dark, Dumb and Dangerous: Inside South Africa’s perfect (electrical) storm By MARK SWILLING

December 12, 2022

Dark, Dumb and Dangerous: Inside South Africa’s perfect storm by Mark Swilling, Daily Maverick December 12, 2022 South Africans are being forced to cope with a new normal: Stages 4 and 6 rolling blackouts for the foreseeable future. In some municipal areas, this can translate into up to 12 hours a day without electricity. What is very certain is that we will have power cuts for at least the next two years.

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Dear South African White people: Gwede Mantashe is not the minister responsible for Eskom’s poor performance and Loadshedding Please direct your frustrations and anger to Pravin Gordan and de Ruyter We didn’t even have to get here 😏

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Excellent article. So much truth. chrisyelland AntonEberhard StephenGrootes PaulivW tshidi_lee SamSoleZA BusiMavuso2 trudimakhaya

You fix Eskom and all the other government issues one way. Make corruption at any level in government a capital crime with long jail times for all parties involved. Prosecute, no exceptions. Unfortunately, the criminals are running the show all the way to the top.

On the history, Mark Swilling spot on. then loses plot. For instance to say bid window 5 & 6 are advanced & leave it there is disingenious.Some BW5 projects are failing to reach financial close.BW6 wind projects were not signed because of constraints on Eskom Grid.

People can cope for a long time with reduced electricity availability but they cannot survive the next big shortage: water.

Nope as soon as Cyril goes to jail for Treason blackouts goes with him..

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Make it 10 years 🤞, 🇿🇦 power crisis.

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