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Cape Town News Links of 22 August 2008
Fromtheold | August 22nd 2008 by esvl
AFP Mandela statue unveiled at prison where he walked free AFP - 9 hours ago The statue, outside the prison in Franschoek, east of Cape Town, honours the 90-year-old Mandela and his contribution to abolishing white-minorit read more
Eskom shuts down Koeberg unit
Powergroup | August 22nd 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
..............................The power utility, however, did not expect power supply interruptions while the unit was being repaired. "We will use the two open-cycle gas turbine power stations in the Western Cape to ensure continuity of electricity read more
Eskom Verswyg die Ware Feite
Powergroup | August 11th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Die Augustus-uitgawe van ons maandelikse nuusbrief, Brandpunt, is nou op onswebwerf by http://www.forensies.com/nuus.htm beskikbaar waar u dit kanaflaai. In hierdie uitgawe:ESKOM VERSWYG DIE WARE FEITEEskom het verlede maand sy jaarverslag vir 2007/0 read more
South Africa’s new Energy Policy abandons coal
Cape Town news | July 29th 2008 by Richard Catto
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South Africa’s Minister of the Environment, announced a new energy policy yesterday that moves away from using predominantly dirty coal for the generation of electricity. The new policy, recently agreed by Cabinet, is d read more
And now Koeberg Unit One is offline too!
Cape Town news | July 26th 2008 by Richard Catto
Oops! Now we are really in for it. On Friday, July 25 2008 at 17h20, Koeberg’s Unit One tripped. Both of Koeberg’s power generating units are now offline which means the national grid just lost 1800MW of power. Starting Monday, Capetonian read more
TATA in Pact to Buy Majority Stake in South Africa’s Neotel
WATblog | June 25th 2008
With the Reliance Communications – MTN deal struggling to take shape, Tata Comm. (formerly VSNL) is all set to get a majority stake in another South African telecom service provider Neotel. Neotel (Pty) Ltd., previously SNO Telecommunicatio read more
Grinding some beans, Monday morning ramblings
The Suzy Says | June 23rd 2008 by SuzyD
Don't get me wrong, I love South Africa, but it grinds my beans that I have to pay a TV licence fee at R125 per year and I watch maybe 2 shows a week - because the rest of the programming is a load of beeswax. No pun intended. I hate toilet humor an read more
Things are looking a bit grim
justB[coz] | May 30th 2008
The petrol price is going up again next week by 50c/litre, it looks like interests rates are set to rise again and Eskom has announced that prices will double in the next 5 years. In fact, Eskom warns that there could even be a total blackout if we read more
Electricity
The philosophy of Miss Niemand Beck | May 23rd 2008 by The Philosophy of Miss Niemand Beck
I like my baths hot with some avo oil, opium incense burning and a glass of red wine. I get to lie there for as long as I want, with my eyes closed thinking. I usually spend that time tuning my thoughts, or meditate, if you prefer. I come up with t read more
A Dark and Dreary Dilemma for South Africa
The Spitting Vessel | May 22nd 2008 by Durano Lawayan a.k.a. Brad Spit
South Africa is heading back to the heart of darkness. After many years of being the leading light of development and hope in the continent, it now finds itself groping in the dark under an energy crisis which could lead to unsavory consequences. The read more
Is daar bloed op die hande van die bestuur van Eskom?
Powergroup | May 9th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Sedert Januarie het ons grootskaalse beurtkrag ervaar. Miljoene Rande het verlore gegaan as gevolg van beurtkrag. Beurtkrag is die gevolg van nalatigheid aan die kant van Eskom bestuur en gevolglik ook die regering.Maar hoeveel mense het al gesterf read more
South Africans cheated and lied to... again!
My Life and Other Stuff | May 8th 2008 by Scotty
This is a Sapa piece on an article in yesterday's Business Report. I make no comment: Eskom skimps on SA May 7, 2008 Johannesburg - In the three months to March, electricity exports rose as much as 6.1 percent year-on-year, while electricity d... read more
South African nights
My Life and Other Stuff | April 24th 2008 by Scotty
I have been subjected to three rolling blackouts (the government prefers us to use the Newspeak term "load-shedding") of four hours each at home so far this week. During Tuesday night's outage I took the opportunity to take this phot read more
Football...Eskom...and Love Shedding...
Insights | April 23rd 2008 by Zahira
No this is not a post on the Euro 2008 though I am looking forward to it but the picture has some meaning below...People say that to blog you need to do it more regularly and on a continuous basis. But some people forget that not everyone is privileg read more
Dalk moet ons ophou eskom grappe maak
Powergroup | April 21st 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Dalk moet ons ophou eskom grappe maak , en eerderdie bron aanspreek . Wat van ‘n paar “slim politikus” grappe ? Of ‘n paar “hardekwas politikus” grappe ? Of ‘n paar “stemgedrewe politikus” grappe ? Dan spreek ons ten minste die prob read more
Load Shedding
Hennies Emails - The journal of a social spammer | April 20th 2008
and the award for the best T-Shirt this year goes to….. read more
PROBLEM FOUR: ESKOM
Powergroup | April 20th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
PROBLEM FOUR: ESKOM"When the nation’s growth is stiffled by a failure of planning and houses are plunged into darkness at least twice a week across the country, someone at the top needs to find out who screwed up and kick their butt black and blue read more
Beurtkrag Kuns. Hofaansoek in Durban.
Powergroup | April 18th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Die kunstenaar maak nou geld uit beurtkragKunstenaars soos Isolde Krams, Luan Nel, Marco Cianfanelli, Kim Lieberman and Hentie van der Merwe het die geleentheid aangegryp en gebruik beurtkrag tot hulle voordeel. Dit is so eie aan Suid Afrika dat daar read more
Beurtkrag spaar krag. Skerpioene saak later aangehoor.
Powergroup | April 18th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Wat is vandag in die nuus oor Beurtkrag en die skerpioene? Marketingweb voer aan dat beurtkrag tot gevolg het dat Suid-Afrikaners begin het om krag te spaar. Sien Artikel 1 Hieronder. Alhoewel dit 'n goeie ding is dat ons almal krag spaar, en ons read more
Eskom sees more power cuts without tariff hike
Powergroup | April 17th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Source: http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=131409By: ReutersPublished: 15 Apr 08 - 17:34South Africa's state electricity utility Eskom could be forced to implement more blackouts if it does not get permission to increase tariffs by 53 read more
Poor Management of Eskom in South Africa leads to Power Shortages…
Powergroup | April 16th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Eskom’s poor performance of electricity also impacts on Namibia. At least Namibia is doing something positive about it. See this article in IOL.Windhoek - Namibia's electricity supplier asked consumers whether they wanted higher rates or less pow read more
Nersa to process Eskom's price hike application
Powergroup | April 16th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Why is Nersa in a hurry? Are they hiding something? See this article on SABC.Nersa to process Eskom's price hike application Eskom wants a 53% tariff hike April 15, 2008, 21:00National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) says it will go ahead read more
load shedding is fun for criminals
inside candy | April 15th 2008 by Candy Tothill
Eskom is due to shed its load again at 6pm in my area. I am no longer incensed by it, rather I am disturbed by how normal it is beginning to seem. On Saturday night it occurred to me that South African street criminals are the only people benef read more
Eskom could soon face civil claims
Powergroup | April 15th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Posted to the web on: 15 April 2008Eskom could soon face civil claims Siseko Njobeni -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Affairs Editor ESKOM could soon face civil claims as the country’s milk pro read more
Save our Country South Africa!!!!!!
Powergroup | April 15th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Oosthuysen Attorneys are the founders of Powergroup. I just came out of ‘n meeting with representative of ‘n Political organisation. The aim of the meeting was to seek support for Powergroup to institute actions and to bring applications against read more
Eskom bonuses
Powergroup | April 11th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
Hi RiaanSince the bonus date has passed, are you still collecting petitions? Sad turnout thus far though. Guess apathy wins yet again in South Africa RegardsCarla Hi CarlaI really thought that South Africans would be more passionate about their count read more
Eskom going Solar
SHEDit | April 11th 2008
There are many different types of renewable energy: wind, geothermal, hydro and solar are just a few. In South Africa our largest natural resource is the sun, so solar power is the way to go. Even with the new thin-film solar panels, they are still e read more
Government cancels R5 bil power contract
Powergroup | April 4th 2008 by Riaan Oosthuysen
“The Department of Minerals and Energy says it's cancelled a R5 billion contract to privately build and operate two gas-powered electricy generators, because the bidder was unwilling to commit to the agreed terms of the tender” – SABC News 03 A read more
Power rations
SHEDit | April 3rd 2008
With the current status of loadshedding in South Africa, it’s just a matter of time before we get power rations. Eskom will say that we can only use 80% or some other percentage of our current power usage, and if we don’t cut back we will read more
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