My first load shedding this year

[Dave W]

Loadshedding query

Can someone please shed some light on a bit of confusion some collegues and I are having in the office?

Where did all the power go...............three months ago there was no such thing as load shedding, or is that just something I missed.
How then can Eishkom and our "I'm sorry" or "No comment" Govt, say that it has to do with the economic growth. The ecomomy has actually slowed in the last few months, so where to now, and then also to say that this will go on for the length of time they claim, who is to fit this bill for those incompetants........the good old you know who.

Makes one think

Rgds Dave W

[Chatmaster]

My opinion based on all the trash I have listened to over the past few weeks. They have been lying to us from day one with almost every single reason that they gave to support the current problem.

First of all, this has nothing to do with unexpected growth that they couldn't foresee. Our economic growth has been under the expected 6% for the past 4-5 years, so that was a lie.

The other reasons of unexpected increase of electricity use is also bs, because the peak use occurs during winter time.

I think the only 3 reasons I can see from this is the following.
Gross incompetence.
They continued to run all the power sources without proper maintenance, which means when the bubble burst late last year, they realised, oops, maybe we better run maintenance on all our stations to ensure this doesn't happen at a later stage.

Gross incompetence
Due to lack of expertise they suddenly awake on morning realising that the new junior engineer that the appointed was right, and they needed to actually get of their fat wallets and actually do some work for their bonuses, else the entire country will blackout.

The last one
They need to get Mbeki out of office and this is the best way for them to ensure that it happens, they did tell government this was going to happen, yet they didn't get the money to do so from them, so no one will even suspect that they are part of the ANC leadership struggle....... Howzit for a conspiracy theory?

[murdock]

well there are people in this country who still think the white people took their big houses and fridges and stoves etc when we got here years ago so what do you expect...the goverment must think we will believe anything they throw at us... problem is there is NOTHING you and i can do about it...you just have to sit and wait until the workers start getting retrenched and the mines and big companies start closing down and the workers are effected...that why if you want things to start happening...put your staff on short time every time there is a power failure and watch how quick cosatu steps in they will decide enough is enough and then heads will roll and there will be mass action and the goverment will have make things happen.

as i mentioned before the old goverment did such a good job with the design of the electrical grid that they did away with the old ripple relay and all that has happened is the new goverment have just been running to failure.

[seymour7]

I do not understand this as we have been having it almost every day from 14:00 for at least 2 hrs. Today it was from about 11:30 until 14:15 A friend of mine who lives just 2kms away has never had it. How does the load shedding work?

Yeah, I know my gran doesn't get load shedding as she is on the same block as a hospital.

/me is really jealous of his gran :/