Turmoil in South Africa

[Bill Ryan]

It seems we may need this new thread.

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[Miller]

Thanks for this Bill. I've just swapped emails with a good friend living in a Cape Town suburb, and although she says everyone is fed up with the electricity outages which are escalating exponentially, she's unaware of any unrest. I've advised her to make a Plan as, once any rioting or looting starts, personal safety could be compromised. I lived in Cape Town during the 1970s riots and to be honest most of the rioting in Cape Town itself was from people turning up to watch the riots and then finding they were the rioters! Of course it wasn't the same in other places, like Soweto. But when a crowd turns ugly you never know what will happen and there are still some serious old resentments very apparent.

[rgray222]

South Africa is one of my favorite countries on the planet (oceanic and land-based beauty and resources are unsurpassed). Over the past decade, it has been heart-wrenching watching the festering corruption and the across-the-board mismanagement. There are no words that can justify the 30 percent unemployment rate which has caused crime to skyrocket to stupefying levels. South Africa is sinking ever further into the muck with no end in sight. The ruling party and the opposition are more concerned with power and money, they spend their time looting the government coffers while trying to unseat their rivals. In the meantime, Rome is on fire while the fire department funding has been completely depleted.

Eskom runs the country’s once-reliable and cheap electricity service which is front and center as the biggest threat to the economy. Eskom authorities have turned to enact forced blackouts to prevent total system collapse, and most businesses and households alike have scrambled for more expensive backup options like diesel generators – or risk staying in the dark. Constructing new plants and improving the existing decrepit infrastructure will take several years so there is virtually no hope for a fix anytime soon. Even without the blackouts, South Africa was unnecessarily headed off the cliff before the impending electrical disaster.

I can't help but wonder if the electrical crisis isn't manmade to deflect attention from how deeply and tragically the SA government has ransacked the treasury. We will be watching in real time as this country needlessly self-destructs.

[Miller]

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/arti...ported-to-saps

"Andre Ruyter (whose Eksom salary is reported to be R7.4m) has confirmed the alleged attempt on his life, which took place on Tuesday 13 December 2022, a day after he submitted his resignation as CEO to the Eskom chairman, Mpho Makwana, but before this became publicly known on 14 December 2022.

“I have reported the matter to SAPS [the South African Police Service] on 5 January 2022, and the case can be assumed to be under investigation,” he told EE Business Intelligence.

A trusted source external to Eskom indicated to EE Business Intelligence that after drinking a cup of coffee in his office at Eskom Megawatt Park in Sunninghill, De Ruyter became weak, dizzy and confused, shaking uncontrollably and vomiting copiously. He subsequently collapsed, unable to walk.

He was rushed to his doctor’s rooms by his security detail, where his condition was diagnosed as cyanide poisoning, and treated accordingly. The tests taken subsequently confirmed massively elevated levels of cyanide in his body.

This has been further confirmed by a second high level-source, as well as De Ruyter’s own words confirming his reporting of the matter to SAPS.

De Ruyter and his executive team have been clamping down and cutting off illicit revenue streams from procurement irregularities, fraud, theft, corruption and maladministration, both within Eskom and by certain of its suppliers and contractors.

High levels of criminality and corruption are particularly prevalent in Mpumalanga Province where there is a high concentration of ageing and poorly performing Eskom coal-fired power stations.

The month of December 2022 was marred by extremely high levels of rolling power cuts throughout South Africa, which is unusual at a time when electricity demand is traditionally its lowest as the country enters the summer holiday period and festive season.

De Ruyter has indicated that his position as CEO of Eskom became untenable after ANC chairman and Mineral Resources & Energy minister Gwede Mantashe publicly accused Eskom management of “agitating for the overthrow of the state”.

The alleged attempted murder also occurred only days before the start of the ANC elective conference held at the NASREC Expo Centre, Johannesburg, from 16 to 20 December 2022.

The period in the lead-up to and during the conference is a time of significantly heightened political tension as factions of the ruling party nominate and contest the positions for the party’s president, its “top 7” leadership, and its National Executive Committee (NEC).

It is becoming clearer that certain disaffected political and criminal elements have been engaging in deliberate acts of sabotage, theft and vandalism that worsened the security of supply in South Africa to the extent where state security is compromised.

The deployment of the South African Defence Force (SADF) to protect Eskom power station assets at a number of Eskom coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga Province, announced during the ANC elective conference, indicates the perceived severity of the threats

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And 3 days ago:
https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/...9-5180f3d7a7e8

"Johannesburg - The ANC is urging former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter to lay criminal charges amid revelations that there were illegal shenanigans at the power utility and that the party was corrupt.

Last week, in an interview with one of the broadcasters, De Ruyter told the journalist that some high-level ministers said people have got to eat, referring to corruption at Eskom.

De Ruyter then announced that he was leaving the power utility with immediate effect, just after sitting in a meeting with Eskom board members.

De Ruyter was initially set to leave the power utility at the end of March but has left. He also revealed that he was planning to leave South Africa for safety reasons.

The ANC welcomed the move by the Eskom board to release De Ruyter. The party announced that it is currently consulting with its legal team concerning statements made by De Ruyter in which he accuses the party of wrongdoing and criminality."

[Mark]

We are going to see this more and more in the months and years to come, starting with the Developing nations and ending with the Developed nations. Some Developed nations, will - surprisingly, for some - reach this stage before some Developing nations. The climate wars and mass migrations are only beginning. Their intensity will continue to grow as those fleeing the shift in climate and agricultural production continues to deepen even as our weather shifts between extreme heat and extreme cold.

[pueblo]

* Edit - This video is from 2021 (Thanks Richter!)

Unbelievable, this is next level looting.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFq1ia_3X08

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Miller (here)
Thanks for this Bill. I've just swapped emails with a good friend living in a Cape Town suburb, and although she says everyone is fed up with the electricity outages which are escalating exponentially, she's unaware of any unrest.

Send her this video!!! I've never seen anything like it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFq1ia_3X08

[Richter]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Miller (here)
Thanks for this Bill. I've just swapped emails with a good friend living in a Cape Town suburb, and although she says everyone is fed up with the electricity outages which are escalating exponentially, she's unaware of any unrest.

Send her this video!!! I've never seen anything like it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFq1ia_3X08

This video is from Juli 2021.

Strangely enough I have absolutely no memory of this happening, back in 2021.

[Miller]

If you go to YT you will find this video is a year old and to do with arrest if former SA President Zuma.

[Miller]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I can't help but wonder if the electrical crisis isn't manmade to deflect attention from how deeply and tragically the SA government has ransacked the treasury. We will be watching in real time as this country needlessly self-destructs.

Sad, but true. In some respects many other countries are run in exactly the same way; they just hide it better. This beautiful country is being asset stripped and run down by their government. The ANC dont care about their people any more than previous governments, again just like our governments. Also, just like our governments, there is no credible opposition.

Wtf we can do about it is the ultimate question. Ideas anyone?

[Ewan]

Posted by Miller (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I can't help but wonder if the electrical crisis isn't manmade to deflect attention from how deeply and tragically the SA government has ransacked the treasury. We will be watching in real time as this country needlessly self-destructs.

Sad, but true. In some respects many other countries are run in exactly the same way; they just hide it better. This beautiful country is being asset stripped and run down by their government. The ANC dont care about their people any more than previous governments, again just like our governments. Also, just like our governments, there is no credible opposition.

Wtf we can do about it is the ultimate question. Ideas anyone?

Riot?




--sorry--

[Miller]

Posted by Ewan (here)

Riot?

-sorry--

Natch. But what then?

[pueblo]

Stock up! US Embassy issues ‘prepper’ warning on load-shedding

26 February 2023 - 00:01
BY HENDRIK HANCKE

The US embassy has urged its citizens travelling to or living in South Africa to stockpile food and water amid the “ongoing power crisis” and warned of the potential for riots...

[Paywall]

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-t...load-shedding/

[DNA]

Posted by Mark (here)
We are going to see this more and more in the months and years to come, starting with the Developing nations and ending with the Developed nations. Some Developed nations, will - surprisingly, for some - reach this stage before some Developing nations. The climate wars and mass migrations are only beginning. Their intensity will continue to grow as those fleeing the shift in climate and agricultural production continues to deepen even as our weather shifts between extreme heat and extreme cold.

You think this is climate?
You think this is weather shifts?
You don't think the US blowing up Nordstrom 1 and 2 had a little something to do with this?
NATO putting embargoes on everything energy coming out of Russia?
The nuclear power plant closures?
The shuttering of coal production?
The attack on food production?

This is about as natural as Madonna's face at the Grammys last week.
This has been orchestrated. The great reset.
This is it.
Environmental virtue signaling BS is what is causing all of this.

[Miller]

Malema spits fire, warns police boss ahead of protest




EFF leader Julius Malema has lambasted security company Fidelity and its investigations head, retired Hawks boss Johan Booysen, over plans to counter his party’s upcoming nationwide shutdown on Monday

Malema was briefing the media at the party’s headquarters at Gandhi Square in central Johannesburg, where he also criticised police commissioner General Fannie Masemola.

His comments come after Sunday World reported earlier in the day that Fidelity has requested a meeting with Masemola to provide assistance to police in their response to “potential violence and looting” during the protest that will, among other things, demand President Cyril Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation.

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Text from a friend this morning:
" It's wee bit tense here. I think you know about the EFF and Julius Malema? Well, they're trying to bring the country to a standstill on Monday calling for Cyril to resign and an end to load shedding. They're telling everyone to stay home, close airports, ports trains, buses, etc.

The police are going around collecting tyres and rocks which have been strewn around at random in readiness. They've been warned against looting and violence but you know how a mob gets. Its a public holiday on Tuesday so a lot of people will take Monday off for a long weekend."

[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/52719

[arwen]

This is very interesting. The daily blackouts in South Africa which in some areas are 12 hours a day now, are a known major infrastructure crisis.

One would think they would welcome innovative solutions, but no, they apparently definitely WANT everyone except the rich elites (who all have generators funded by tax payers) to suffer like this. If someone comes up with a solution, they shut it down.

Frankfort forced to dump solar power because of Eskom

Frankfort, a small town in the Free State, has been forced to abandon its solar energy system after being blocked by Eskom

Frankfort, a small town in the Free State, will be joining the rest of the country in the dark after its solar-generated energy project was rejected by Eskom.

FRANKFORT DENIED RIGHTS TO GENERATE SOLAR ENERGY

“Starting today, residents in the small town of Frankfort in the Free State will be forced to sit in the dark while a nearby solar farm, run by a third party, dumps unused solar-generated electricity because Eskom and Mafube municipality wants to keep them locked in into Eskom’s load-shedding schedule,” lamented DA MP Kevin Mileham.

“This unfortunate turn of events came about after the Gauteng High Court did not consider the merits of the case, citing the absence of Mafube Local municipality, who did not join the court challenge, reflecting a turnabout and an apparent lack of interest by the administrator in the welfare of residents who would have benefited from the resulting augmentation to the power supply,” said Mileham.

ESKOM ACCUSED OF ABUSE OF POWER

Reflecting on the matter, MP Ghaleb Cachalia said, “What is happening in Frankfort is simply an abuse of Eskom’s monopoly – Eskom is interfering in a small embedded project that is not directly interfering with the utility’s bulk power supply to the municipality.

“Instead of partnering with Rural Maintenance to protect Frankfort’s residents from the debilitating effects of Eskom’s debilitating load-shedding schedule, which has recently been ramped up to an indefinite stage 6, Mafube local municipality chose to sit on the sidelines and watch a major investment to end load-shedding go to waste”.

GATEKEEPING EVIDENT IN PARASTATALS

He further said the Frankfort case exposes the red tape that IPPs have to contend with, including Eskom gatekeeping before they can sell power to municipalities.

“With the current punishing schedule of stage 6 load-shedding, it is simply astounding that Eskom is making it difficult for IPPs to reduce the severity of power cuts. Instead of supporting Frankfort’s efforts to mitigate load-shedding and lessen the load on the constrained national grid, we now have a situation where Eskom would rather protect its own monopoly than embrace additional generation capacity,” a disappointed Cachalia said.

[safara]

I have a friend in RSA that makes a very nice living out of selling home batter/inverter/solar stuff

[arwen]

May 11, 2023

South Africa's President Ramaphosa says its energy crisis is an "existential threat" to South Africa's economy and social fabric.

He's promising to bring the daily power cuts "to an end", but already the country has experienced hours of blackouts almost every day this year.

So what's being done to actually fix South Africa's power issue?

BBC, 7 minutes:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zh4yqhD98HU

[gini]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jHxh_sQHH0E

--8/6/23--29 min--About the daily power blackouts ,the corruption and its chaotic consequenses in South Africa