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Any other South Africans here?

What y'all think of the loadshedding?

I think the bastards should all be rounded up and charged with treason and manslaughter

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    Is there an issue with power gen?

    What is the current generation capability versus potential load?

    What is the driver?
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    Rant but not dev, on devRant? Aren't you missing something?
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    @c3r38r170 i put the !dev tag. Although, I am a dev and if it keeps on like this, it will start to affect work because my laptop battery and UPS won't last the duration
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    @TheBeardedOne Oh "loadshedding" sounded like some fancy political word for some social issue. Yeah keep going.
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    @c3r38r170 yea they just call the rolling blackouts that. It basically is a political issue. We only have one power company
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    Wikipedia says it all (well, I hope there's more to it):

    In a December 1998 report, analysts and leaders in Eskom and in the South African government predicted that Eskom would run out of electrical power reserves by 2007 unless action was taken to prevent it.[10][11] The government took no action to expand the country's energy production capacity before 2007 as government was considering the privatisation of Eskom.[12]

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    The first period of chronic power shortages occurred in late 2007 - -.
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    No one seems to want workable solutions and good policies, does t matter the country. Instead, they want things that make everything worse. I don’t understand.
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    @Frederick I didn’t just mean politicians. I meant practically everyone seems to only want things that make everything worse.
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    @Root They don't actually want to make things worse. they just assume other things to be the right things to do than you. Bond villians are pretty rare in the real meatspace.
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    @Oktokolo of course they want to make things better for themselves. Even Bond villains do, those movies just make clearer division between good and bad for the viewer. There are many movies where the line is more blurred, as it usually is in the real world. It would be a fun experiment to remake a Bond movie so that Bond is the bad guy.
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    @Root It is intentional. Either by promoting incompetence or promoting disruptors. Also rewarding bad decisions and biases toward power and money. It has been going on for a long time.

    Well if images worked I could post an example.
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    So basically what's happening at the moment is things went the Wikipedia said they would.

    They were then told to get their act together and they are now striking because they want more money to actual do their jobs. The strike was declared an illegal strike. So I don't know why they haven't all been told that it's back to work or off to jail.

    I'm not a legal or political expert but I think that because they are the only power provider, the consequences for striking should be the same as military desertion.
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