It’s been a lazy start to the day down at the Southern Tip. No point in getting up if it’s cloudy and miserable out, and no prospect of coffee because of the lack of electricity. Still, once we were up and about, we got a lot of the admin stuff we needed to get sorted […]
What are the chances of there being loadshedding over the next year or so? Well, in this breakdown (no pun intended), Eskom (our state electricity provider) (occasionally, at least) details how much electricity we’re likely to need and how much they’re likely to be able to supply for the next 52 weeks Green is good, […]
Grey, dreary, wet day. Made the best of it with some steak, chips, and Belgian beer. It was a good afternoon. Loadshedding and football now, and hopefully a brighter day tomorrow.
Love him or hate him (or just see him as yet another ANC cadre deployment that will increase the ministerial wage bill while providing absolutely no tangible difference to the issues he is supposed to be fixing), the new Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is certainly making waves. Yesterday came reports that he had allegedly […]
It was all a bit weird from the start. Populist, vocal, flipflopping political party, known for its publicity stunts and – let’s be honest here – “occasional” forays into violent protest, calls for a day of National Shutdown to end loadshedding and oust the President. But given that their grievances are an ongoing thing, it […]