10-hour blackouts: What is behind the South Africa's energy crisis? | DW News

Millions of South Africans plunged into darkness, as the country's energy crisis deepens. How are people coping with the worst power cuts on record?
South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa is holding emergency meetings to address the country's deepening energy crisis.
Authorities have been imposing rolling blackouts as the nation's embattled power utility struggles to meet demand - and the power cuts are hitting the economy hard.
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[@sielfriedtcleophaszebbygow2475]

South Africa is slowly failing. its heartbreaking, the leaders are just corrupt and voters are ignorant. God help ZA

[@projectacuhope]

God IS helping them to learn their lesson the hard way. Allow the slaughter of your farmers experience famine. Fire the electrical company workers because they are the wrong race, enjoy the blackouts.

[@thembamahlangu9028]

What have you done good sir to assist build South African township? Those ignorant voters, when was last time you spent time in their neighbourhoods and just see what life is like for them? Corruption is killing our country, yes. And ignorance yes, and another biggest silent killer - indifference

[@bdunnigan73]

@@thembamahlangu9028 Orania shows you how to build a good neighbourhood through hard work and perseverance, but you want others to do your work for you and that is why you will not succeed. The community must do it itself and not rely on the political charlatans. You will gradually see the results of your sweat and toil. Keep the faith and see the light at the end of the tunnel sans the ANC and EFF. Anything else is the status quo and nothing will come of that.

[@sielfriedtcleophaszebbygow2475]

@@thembamahlangu9028 Bro, I am from the townships bro, i live here, i know alot about the township and i work with alot of people who are in other townships as well, lol and I do quite a lot for my community, a lot of persons come to me for advice on various things which i wont mention but are apart of my career path and I can say not being corrupt and also not voting for a failed party is enough. I am not indifferent, can you not interpret what i wrote if you such a "wise guy". Voters electing those leaders who failed them is pure ignorance. what i meant is not to stop voting, but to vote for other leaders.

[@hus390]

@@sielfriedtcleophaszebbygow2475 What's ZA stands for?? ..... Power corrupts. ANC have been in power so long, you need new party to run the country. Remind you of British Tories.

[@mr2981]

What's behind it? Incompetence and corruption, what else would it be. There, saved you seven minutes.

[@stevens1041]

Thx m8

[@queldar27]

This is always the answer.

[@not.likely]

Quite right

[@fevertreelover]

In a nutshell.

[@thekikster11]

😂

[@marcinmichalak7001]

ANC is the blame and reason for this

[@samsonsoturian6013]

South Africa is to blame for this

[@omnihein9322]

@@samsonsoturian6013 yes, because we keep voting for an extremely corrupt government. We need a coalition with the Progressive center economic parties (DA, ActionSA) leading it. And we need to stop judging people on skin color/culture and instead judge them on their actions.

[@angieleemans8316]

Punishment for keep voting for ANC Mafias. Only South Africans 🇿🇦 can solve this. I am so annoyed about this... Greetings from Belgium 💓

[@suzygirl1843]

China can help.

[@FranFerioli]

The more damages socialism does, the more people vote it. Might sound familiar.

[@suzygirl1843]

@@FranFerioli Blah, blah, blah. White people need to come up with a new book because all these buzz words may work in America, but Africans just see WHITE people on both sides and choose the ones who never colonized them. So change your game, Sweety, because we rather stay in the dark than be in a toxic relationship with The West.

[@lowkeyocity6769]

@@suzygirl1843 they can But speak with the White's about it

[@suzygirl1843]

@@lowkeyocity6769 Whites can flee anytime they want to. It's why we don't necessarily accept them as real citizens

[@samanthawebb7926]

In the 1990s a massive electrification programme was rolled out. Demand rose like never before. Presidents Mandela and Deputy (later President) Mbeki were informed, and then clearly warned: build more generation capacity or we will reach a tipping point in 2007. Nobody did anything. And "load shedding" began in 2008. An interesting irony is that in 2001, SA power utility Eskom won an international award for providing the cheapest, most available and reliable electricity in the world. And now... it's broken from bending. Tragic

[@aaronrathbone6693]

At the same time Eskom supplied Botswana,Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland,and namibia... in short Eskom supplied half the electricity in Africa and at an unmatched price .... corruption and state capture is why SA is were it is today nothing more nothing less

[@aaronrathbone6693]

All they had to do was cancel a few contracts and not renew some others ... but the ANC chose to make their tax payers pay and their economy loose R4 billion a day due to blackouts

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@aaronrathbone6693 Are you of the Clyde Rathbones?

[@JK0628]

ANC is the problem . Useless bunch

[@FranFerioli]

The ANC is a socialist party. One might see a pattern.

[@katlegomogolwane4236]

South Africa's condition is a dire one. Our people have elected Animal Farm's Napoleon. Unfortunately it's not just a matter of "stop voting for the ANC". The educated within our population will most certainly exercise their right and vote against this cancer of a government. However, one must note how strategic the government has been to remain in power. They have kept our people in abject poverty and have ensured that the masses remain uneducated because they understand that the biggest threat to any ill government is an educated population. Which is why all it takes to buy a vote is a mere t-shirt and an empty promise. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

[@avtomatkalashnikov9701]

preach brother preach!

[@Aleander1988]

Brilliant comment. Couldn’t have summed it up better 👏👏

[@jessicakruger7]

Well said 👏

[@Stewi1014]

As someone who's only contact with South Africa is through a childhood friend, I really hope SA can pull through this and the corruption as well. It's an incredible country and deserves more international respect than it has. I bet everyone knows the name Nelson Mandela, but how many actually understand SA, it's history, and what we can learn from it? No doubt corruption is not helping.

[@MJ-px2df]

It sounds like you are talking about America lol

[@NANICU]

I planned a vacation in Cape Town in October last year without knowing about this problem and had to endure 10 days of load shedding. Having to time your showers while you have electricity and freezing at night because there's no heat is no joke. My heart goes out to all South Africans who have been going through this for years already.

[@beewest5704]

Now 8ts even affecting water supply so no shower for you.

[@Ben-hb4my]

@@beewest5704 problem solved

[@saritshull3909]

I think you were just staying in a shoddy place. Your water in geyser should still be warm overnight. And October is not cold. Even at night. It’s a little chilly especially if you’re in the wind. But you don’t need any heat.

[@anon746912]

Meanwhile, government wants to sponsor Tottenham Hotspur with a billion rand to "boost tourism"

[@yersiniapestis7383]

@@saritshull3909 When you are a foreigner accustomed to first world luxuries, when you shower warm water is not good enough. I don't blame this guy, afterall he is on vacation and paid good money for his stay in SA.

[@davidkotze4140]

The ANC's plan is working exactly as they want it to....cannot think of anything they've not broken....they need to be applauded for their efforts !!

[@MrSimonw58]

Government's private sector solar rollout strategy ... genius actually

[@sedzesanimathavha9939]

Very sad

[@davidkotze4140]

@@sedzesanimathavha9939 tragic !! 😪

[@agrid2608]

It's all about privatizing State owned Enterprises. Make it dysfunctional, sell it off for cheap, get your cut. All the people involved in a revolving door. Chairman of Nedbank about to become the new CEO of Eskom. Nedbank long has a plan for M&A in the private energy sector. Have a look at the renewables exchange established by Remgro (Rupert) and all the renewable companies lining up e.g the ones funded by British International Investment like Globeleq etc. As if renewables fan provide baseload.... Also Afriforum starting a private power company with an American SA-born venture capitalist. All the usual establishment players in the know & long ready for it.

[@hus390]

Power corrupts. ANC have been in power so long, you need new party to run the country. Remind you of British Tories.

[@GreenStarTech]

Dishonest reporting. Not one mention of the real cause of loadshedding - anc; from cadre deployment, to blocking independent power producers, to corruption - Chancellor house investment in Hitachi, policy uncertainty.

[@gertscheper9653]

Becoming a real african nation.

[@buravan1512]

it have always been a real African nation.

[@dannyarcher6370]

It has never been a nation. Country, yes.

[@suzygirl1843]

@@dannyarcher6370 Not for long. Seeing more and more Chinese expats.

[@Rouxenator]

@@buravan1512 nope, started circa 1992 ~1994 and only became more and more real African each year.

[@buravan1512]

@@Rouxenator then what else do you want? A trophy 🏆?

[@tajmajal4197]

Corrupt government, so what can you expect? The poor remain poor all their lives, unfortunately.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

The government is no different from anyone else.

[@aaronrathbone6693]

@@samsonsoturian6013 no the ANC goverment take everything build nothing blame everyone else ... they are not like everyone else come live here then you will see.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

@@aaronrathbone6693 as does the rest of SA

[@seanperrings8460]

Corrupt Gov? Corrupt people. It is the african way

[@Aliabond]

I'm one of the businesses affected by this madness. It is so sad to let workers go because of electricity. I'm not sure how long I'll keep the doors open.

[@Scott0909-j7m]

Same here. I already downscaled since last year and am operating only month end now.

[@scivirus3563]

Stop voting Anc

[@ArthursHD]

There is an expensive solution. Hybrid solar PV (connected to the grid with batteries). Even better if it is connected as a smart distributed power plant earning money when demand is high. More efficient devices would help as well, but that would need to be done at scale. Might as well build a peaker plant. It's not feasible for most people, so people are left to adapt. Either put up with it or get a generator that is cheaper in short term. One of the cheapest ways to get hybrid solar PV is to get an EPEver inverter/charge controller (can't back feed to the grid), and Tier 1 solar panels like Jinko Solar. Due to the low reliability of the power grid batteries are a must. EVE LFP or similar cells can be imported from China just like all the other components. Smart BMS is better so the cycle life of batteries can be extended and battery chemistry can be changed in the future. Na-ion will compete price-wise with LFP in stationary battery storage. All the components can be found on Alibaba :)

[@alphaomega5721]

The question of how long the South African miracle would last has been settled. It's an engineering question and it should be framed as " How long will infrastructure last with minimal to no maintenance? "

[@Razaiel]

It basically took one generation to destroy everything that the Afrikaners built.

[@pete5691]

Why not just build another power plant?

[@alphaomega5721]

@@pete5691 because the funds would be stolen before it would begin. Corruption within the ANC is endemic to the point where being non-corrupt isn't seen as an option.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Talk talk talk … in Africa they just talk. Allergic to work. More meetings and less electricity on the way. Anything but working.

[@cheeseflavoredsoda3262]

Nature taking its course! South Africa is becoming a proper African country!

[@ballenboy]

South Africa's rail network is also failing. It is almost like SA is experiencing the same decay that the other previous African colonies after the Europeans left. Only this decay started in the 90's, not the 60's and 70's like the rest.

[@labourlawact7826]

Not almost. Most definitely, and a scale never seen before. The country is going from a first world country to a miserable failed banana Republic

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

Because the European descendants were only officially removed from power in the mid-90's in SA.

[@ballenboy]

@@Waldemarvonanhalt Hmm, think you might be on to something there. And who took the power in the 90's? Like in all the other colonies. Has someone looked into this trend?

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

@@labourlawact7826 Oh, yes, that's true. I was just being concise.

[@mookimoves9469]

A decay caused by theft greed and corruption that is

[@GrantHancock1407]

Corruption plain and simple!

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

Indeed !, thank you for not ranting

[@jm-gr1ww]

Weird how no one is saying that the direct cause of this is the ANC government.

[@reegyreegz]

Because that would be called racist. But everyone with a brain knows why the anc is useless.

[@MAR-vs3vf]

Those fools already lost tge 2024 elections by - 99,9%.. The DA needs to step up

[@scivirus3563]

If you do then you are racist and the media loves Wokeness its creates news more money for them not the truth

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

Not weird we all know there's corruption in our country no need to scream "ANC" every 2 seconds we get it they are corrupt,hawu!

[@aarononeale7727]

no need to say it. i think most people know who is to blame

[@marisejones6046]

Even Ukraine do not experience 10 hour blackout 🤔

[@senanb1]

Atleast Ukraine has an excuse due to Russian missiles. What is SA excuse? Missiles from Zimbabwe???

[@the_real_hislordship]

@@senanb1 maybe it's missiles from hadedas.

[@JdeC1994]

"Even Ukraine do not experience 10 hour blackout 🤔" Could demographics have something to do with that? Hmmm. 🤔

[@First-Last_name]

So, Coal power plants don't last forever, turns out they were supposed to maintain them, if they didn't want them to deteriorate in under a decade 🤔

[@ballenboy]

Most of Africa has less railroads now than when it was ruled by Europeans 1900-1970. Lack of knowledge, will and too much corruption.

[@lm_b5080]

south africa is the classic case of 'great freedom fighters don't make great national leaders'

[@Straightdeal]

Maintain? WTF is that?

[@ballenboy]

@@Straightdeal Maintenance is what you do so that a machine or mechanism doesn't fall apart after many years of usage. It's repairs and replacements.

[@First-Last_name]

@@ballenboy I think they were being facetious.

[@RobVog]

As a South African, this guy they brought on, skated over the corruption issue based off his own opinion. It's much bigger than he made it out to be , and it's not just Eskom - it's the ANC and NERSA as well. Funny how the outside world watches and does nothing, simply because instability in SA benefits them

[@francoisgillesdepelichy4493]

CEO of Eskom poisonned, companies doing the maintenance caught sabotaging the power plants,.. no mention of that?

[@zell863]

What does the outside world have to do? I'm there. Nobody gives a f what you do down there.

[@joecruiser]

True.

[@belski256]

what does the outside world have to do with another countries electricity..

[@syjiang]

What exactly do you want the outside world to do about a domestic mismanagement??? Armed intervention? I don't find it funny about the deterioration of South Africa, What is your proposed solution?

[@paulsenjohannes]

I live in Alberton, South Africa. At this very moment we are experiencing load shedding and electricity infrastructure breakdowns leaving us with no electricity for 36 - 48 hours. Even our hospitals are suffering because of ANC mismanagement.

[@projectacuhope]

Yes, but you don't have apartheid, or oppression.

[@scotteez8491]

@@projectacuhope No, it's worse

[@827181]

@@projectacuhope Fully aware of that my friend. Now all we need is electricity, damn wouldnt that make the situation ever so more enriched.

[@gordondwyer3641]

@Project AcuHope You can't eat freedom.

[@frankcogallo]

The majority will vote again in 2024 for the ANC MAFIA.

[@jantaljaard835]

It is because of poor maintenance and our government s incompetence.

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

Plain and simple ,i like it.

[@petero7937]

The incompetence leads to poor maintenance. there is an mafia led by anc comrades who sabotage the power stations to try get maintenance contracts. They supply substandard coal, bribe the testers, mix rocks in with the coal then the powerstations break down and they supply inferior contractors who have to work with inferior cheaper steel.

[@charlesmendez4686]

what maintenance! our way is to use until it collapses then fix. if it is working, then it ain't broken even if it sounds audibly in distress.

[@hendriejansevanrensburg8404]

Blame the governing party, corruption is killing our economy

[@TRAZ4004]

Decades of single party rule of course you’re going to have corruption.

[@ArnoSnyman007]

I have moved to the Netherlands, but my fokes are still in ZA. It pains me to see how the ANC has destroyed the country. Yet another Communist disaster story.

[@valevisa8429]

Is the government elected democratically in SA ? If answer is yes,then the blame lies with the voters who elect such corrupt government.People who elect thieves in government ,are not victims,but accomplices.

[@stevens1041]

@@ArnoSnyman007 Hope your family and friends can join you back in Netherlands. SA is a lost cause, sadly.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

ANC isn't the only one behind BEE.

[@nordan00]

What’s happening is that the people who built it and kept it running have been/are being killed, driven out, or increasingly leaving the country.

[@buravan1512]

NO... the real cause is not being said here...

[@nathitshabalala5414]

Boo hoo

[@drunkensailor112]

@@nathitshabalala5414 good luck becoming like Zimbabwe

[@milktart4591]

You are right 👍

[@mmb811]

No, the corrupt anc gov REFUSES to listen to those electrical engineers and EXPERTS in the field!

[@Fishstycz]

It's called foresight... Sadly, not one of our political elite's attributes.

[@Squatta_Kamper]

They have attributes?

[@Cleisthenes607]

@@Squatta_Kamper Oy vey goyim stop noticing!

[@rchatte100]

More incompetence & corruption from the ANC. The Afrikaana gov was much more competent.

[@movementmathebula828]

Guess what? They are not coming back again

[@omnihein9322]

The Afrikaans government was just as corrupt, they just served a minor part of the population. Coming from an Afrikaans person myself.

[@lm_b5080]

@@movementmathebula828 i love your argument: we'd rather sit in poverty & die of hunger, but at least we got to choose the people who stole our future from us

[@aaronrathbone6693]

@@movementmathebula828 you have the reasoning skills of a tic tac and the logic of a leach

[@movementmathebula828]

@@aaronrathbone6693 that's what you have hence you can see through me......

[@sonicboom4732]

Did you know: In South Africa you get to vote for your dictator.

[@jdzajdza]

Let me just say it as he doesn’t want to. Affirmative action aka BEE replaced people based on their skin of the person colour. Skills was not a priority. Now there are 42k people working at Eskom meanwhile only 19k people are working there. The rest are ghost employee of which are ANC members pocketing money. Eskom employee salary is 6 times higher than the average salary. They use none automative machine as they refused over a decade to upgrade it. That guy doesn’t tell what is really going on. That is why his explanation doesn’t make sense.

[@wehmeyer875]

Yes he is feer for is live,you cant speak out its only small manorety

[@aaronrathbone6693]

Exactly John well said

[@r2ecko]

100% true.

[@mookimoves9469]

Well said

[@kopza79]

Ghost employees my foet !

[@boydwyatt]

After 5 years I left the new bold Zimbabwe when the same stuff happened even more quickly. ZA still had a strong technical skill base. Its not a lack of capital its just massively wasted. So sad, ZA could have been the shining beacon of hope and prosperity in Africa.

[@clivepilusa7734]

South Africa will go down in history as the best example of why you don't hand industrial societies to people who had no role in building the institutions that made it.

[@MixoDawn]

Watching this from Johannesburg sitting in the dark. A very sad story of our beloved South Africa

[@anthonysalgado5118]

They the ANC inherited a working electrical supplier all they had to do was maintenance and expand the grid , but no the drove it into the ground. But not to worry SAR, SAA, DENEL, SABC are among the others that have gone the same way.

[@scorpio85]

And South Africa is now known world wide as a failed state just like the rest of Africa.

[@flipster7285]

Don't forget SAFCOL....

[@TheChe_23.]

Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC will be voted out in 2024. It time to make History again... ❤🇿🇦

[@flipster7285]

Unless there is a 2/3 majority to take over we will be screwed even if the anc loses the election.....look at the tshwane and jhb municipalities, unable to govern due to ebdless motions of no confidence, disruptions of council meetings, constant bickering and attemots from the anc and eff to make the municipalities ungovernable.....that mentality will be employed in parliament and we will still go nowhere

[@vonyp6018]

this was happening 10 years ago !! i remember night power blackouts for industry.. why has it not been sorted yet

[@londonspade5896]

It never will be, it will only get worse.

[@jeandrejacobs5433]

Its 16 years of power cuts now. Way over 10 year's.

[@JK0628]

16 years ANC done nothing till now,and will not do anything now.

[@Pkxvk]

There needs to be a coup de etat in South Africa to sort out this ANC problem

[@the_real_hislordship]

The ANC is why it hasn't been sorted.

[@qf4543]

When does Africa maintain anything?

[@aaronrathbone6693]

How do they get hundreds of billion in aid from UN and US-Aid to line their pockets if they maintained things... far easier to take the handouts and blame others

[@davidrobertsemail]

We know why they have blackouts. We know why Zimbabwe collapsed too.

[@ballenboy]

Hmm, another african country failing. isnt there a common thing with all of them except this thing only started in the 90s, not the 60s and 70s like the rest.

[@not.likely]

Same reason

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

Don't say it though, the wokies will lose their minds.

[@not.likely]

@@devinfraserashpole4753 all the wokies did, was to create a niche, where they thought they would be able to live a little bit longer

[@ImadeUlook]

My fellow South Africans, a family meeting is urgently needed!!!

[@carstenthies9597]

This problem became already blatantly apparent in 2008/2009. Incompetence and corruption is putting South Africa on a similar path as many other african countries.

[@polynekarizy7326]

Don't involve other African countries in your mess please ,

[@wvbosch]

This is domocracy in action. The majority of South Africa want to live like this. We have had MANY opportunities to change the looters but the majority choose not to do so. With great power comes great responsibility. Us as South Africans should take responsibility for this. Isn't it about time we respect the wishes of the majority of the electorate...

[@movementmathebula828]

News flash......nomatter how deep they loot.....we will never have white government like many of you so wish

[@omnihein9322]

It isn't democracy's fault, it's corruption+propaganda+past oppression.

[@aaronrathbone6693]

This is mass corruption and incompetence in action

[@lm_b5080]

we seem to forget that the heart of the ANC & people who vote for it is communist. this is how communists love to live - we suffer & the leaders steal from us, but at least we suffer together

[@nathitshabalala5414]

You have another chance next year.

[@moshoeshoemokaloba9613]

Honestly government is to blame and government should be held to account. But sadly it is South Africa.

[@suhdud4646]

Blackouts have been in SA for almost 20years. Side note, the exiting boss of Eskom was poisoned with cyanide a day after he handed in his resignation.

[@williamf9633]

The problem with South Africa started in the early nineties when the anc took power

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

@̐ And they say Apartheid was bad but kept arriving in droves.

[@Pkxvk]

And yet they attempted to brainwash us by praising themselves in our school textbooks for ending apartheid when the anc themselves is way worst than the apartheid government

[@williamthatsmyname]

7 years of no action? Wow

[@ArnoSnyman007]

Yip. It is pretty pathetic and now the chickens has come home to roost.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

It's a struggle just to keep the machines running due to various sorts of employee theft. About 80% of public funds are misused in some fashion or another.

[@labourlawact7826]

Just another failed African banana republic

[@riyaanabrahams4061]

more like that 30 years, the SA govermnet was informed in 1994 already that they need to invest in new powerstations but they done nothing

[@omnihein9322]

@@riyaanabrahams4061 more like 15-20 years, there were other problems that had to get first priority, like paying off the debt, getting standards up for the rest of the population, etc. The ANC wasn't always this corrupt, it was corrupt (like every other government on earth), but it festered under Zuma (Who would have thought :-|

[@DgurlSunshine]

GREED KILLS

[@drakenkraken8455]

That demographic in power gives you the same results as Detroit or St. Louis or Haiti or Somalia.

[@stumpdintallekt397]

I live in St. Louis surrounded by rough neighborhoods. I have noticed maybe two brief power outages within the last three years. Holding up really well over here.

[@rudyardganuelas6254]

@@stumpdintallekt397 his racism is dripping from his keyboard. I lived in Texas for 7 years, hours long blackouts during the winter AND the summer. days long blackout back in winter 2011 and again in 2021. short power interruptions every few weeks. republican mayor, congress rep, state senator, Lt gov, governor forever and yet, apparently, the blackouts are the fault of democrats. and the green new deal, which is just an idea.

[@rzella8022]

@@stumpdintallekt397 Give it time.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Never a problem prior to 1994. Wonder why these issues have grown exponentially since then?

[@ray-za1776]

😂 hey man your right the racist government was doing really well, so please let all your racism shine this is one of the few times you can.

[@anthonysalgado5118]

@@ray-za1776 truth hurts , whats wrong with stating everything worked pre 94 and now it does not. Its not a racist thing but if you feel comfortable playing the racist card power to you.

[@starkmad5351]

@@ray-za1776 not about apartheid.. it starts with the wheel.. Africans missed that part of the evolution struggle and therefore still are unable to keep up...

[@DgurlSunshine]

@@anthonysalgado5118 TRUTH HURTS

[@ray-za1776]

@@starkmad5351 unless you don’t consider the Egyptians, kemet , ethiopia or the even the maphungubwe as kingdoms then yes they had no wheels Bro africa is more than the khoisan truly advanced civilisation existed some died out on their own some the Europeans killed etc. and the very notion of suggesting that some people are more evolved than others is racism dummy 🫤

[@grahamt5924]

Glad to see SA is doing so well. We can now all laugh at you, like you used to laugh at us in Zimbabwe

[@Healingson]

Don’t they get 24 hour blackouts in zim?

[@grahamt5924]

@Khwezi Cele Give it time in SA, and you will also know the pleasure of no electricity ever.

[@starkmad5351]

That's what happens when the native take over.. just look at Africa uts all fked

[@mysticman9331]

We are trying to catch up with you

[@grahamt5924]

@Mystic Man You are getting there quickly now. We have had 43 years, so you are 14 years behind us, but I think you will actually overtake us in your de-industrialisation.

[@misteranon763]

Whats behind the blackouts?! Its the guy with the red bolt cutters! 😆 Get him away from that terminal

[@misteranon763]

@@sms3712 😁👌 i was being silly. Just joking ✌️😉

[@kasper7203]

I hate to be the "racist" but democracy caused this. I am no fan of Apartheid but liberators seldom make good governments and in South Africa we just do not have the required level of education to enable proper democracy.

[@shauncameron8390]

Pretty much.

[@projectacuhope]

Democracy is not necessarily a good thing. In the US we have or used to have representative government where people were elected to be informed of the issues because the average person is busy with other matters and can't give adequate attention to it. And those people would represent groups of others. When you have a democracy where everyone has a voice, the misinformed, the uneducated, the self serving, the mentally ill also have a voice.

[@sonofafrica2710]

Eskom Postoffice Denel Transnet SAPS Infrastructure And so on..... The ANC have completely destroyed SA.....

[@martinscholtz6082]

Give the power utility back to the people who designed, developed and ran it in the past. Nothing can be governed if you don’t understand how it works. And then also give policing back to them so they can put the corrupt crew in their place.

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

It’s not going to happen, Martin. You know that. This is a one-way ticket to darkness.

[@mayav7751]

So sad. I loved Cape Town and was sad to leave (due to covid and electric issues). I really worry for all those who can’t get out

[@mesino4137]

Where are you now?

[@DC_Fedens]

That's why us Capetonians are fighting for secession.

[@Scott0909-j7m]

@@DC_Fedens unfortunately it won't happen. We have Eskom in CT so it could become our problem and the WC provides the 2nd highest GDP to SA after Gauteng plus the harbours for trade. It would be different if it was a cultural group like Oranje but the ANC will never approve it. Imagine us inheriting the Eskom problem.

[@VegasElement]

@@DC_Fedens Can you link to any information on this?

[@wayneduff-riddell5500]

True that there is corruption and lousy government response, but let us not forget that many users don't pay for their electricity. One municipality alone owes a R5 billion in unpaid electricity! And we have rolling, scheduled power cuts of a few hours a day in each area, not as suggested, widespread 10 hour blackouts. Perhaps a little more personal responsibility and a little less freeloading at all levels would help.

[@jn8922]

Yes. The government is happy for squatter camps to mushroom everywhere in the surrounding neighborhoods and then provide free electricity - but the electricity is not free, the people living in the suburbs pay for it through rates, higher electricity tariffs.

[@ermericcarolissen694]

Municipalities owe Eskom R50 billion. Eskom's debt is R450 billion. So even if all Municipalities pay Eskom what they owe we'd still be in this mess.

[@thesnailshow8004]

You see that's the thing. If we speak with our wallets and don't pay they'll be forced to fix things

[@PD-yd3fr]

Why do you stay? It will never improve in you lifetime

[@r2ecko]

It's bad, very bad. I feel like closing my business and moving abroad.

[@movementmathebula828]

Don't wait up

[@aaronrathbone6693]

@@movementmathebula828 telling a person who creates employment for others to not wait up ... ish you're not a very smart guy ey hahaha ..

[@movementmathebula828]

@@aaronrathbone6693 there are many places they can go and create that employment for their own people who look like them......they are not bind by any law to create employment hence it's not a favor to anyone 😉

[@aaronrathbone6693]

@@movementmathebula828 🤣😂 lol go play in traffic

[@movementmathebula828]

@@aaronrathbone6693 I'm sorry I don't have spare time to play.......ek is besig !

[@fredlenz4743]

Please use an expert that is willing to tell the truth. The energy minister is against renewables and wants coal and gas. He has interests in coal mines. They want to drill and frack for oil. Shady nuclear deals with Russia without consultation. Overwhelming support against oil drilling and fracking from the Traditional Leaders and communities. Karpower gas ships on 20 year leases with uncontrolled costs. Speak to all the Opposition Parties and Business. Then you will report on the true power situation in South Africa.

[@DgurlSunshine]

FRACKING POISONS WATER

[@johnstirling6597]

Lots of former South African network electricians have migrated to Western Australia and are now working for the state electricity utility.

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

Good for them

[@FckKnws]

I think a crucial part of information you are missing is that's it's 10 hours per day per suburb, so technically it's 24 hours a day, every day, if it comes back on time, which often it doesn't. We have also been advised that we will have up to 16 hours per day during winter. Fun times.

[@A3Kr0n]

I don't know who's cutting that power wire in your thumbnail, but they have no idea what they're doing

[@r2ecko]

ANC employee that's who

[@blakebotha9697]

South Africa is doing an excellent job evolving backwards

[@kagisorlm8385]

To be honest, the citizens are complicit in the issues we are facing and the corrupt activities of the ANC!

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

I grew up in Durban and some kids would not do their homework and blame Eskom lmao 😂💀 🤣

[@dariusaasin5580]

It breaks my heart, one of most advanced county in Africa is heading towards downfall.

[@kamva_cwayi2102]

Tell you the truth. We're sick of how our party runs SA. We truly believe in the potential of our people but we're literally being held down by corruption in all sectors

[@gordondwyer3641]

Yes. It's sad. The difficulty is where does one find honest people with a bit of integrity these days?

[@bourbonlover7158]

Vote that govt out!

[@jdzajdza]

30 million people are living on grant money. At every election they are reminded that if you don’t vote for us than you won’t get grant. Voting the govt out is not that easy. Most are brainwashed

[@bourbonlover7158]

@@jdzajdza Guess they deserve to have blackouts then

[@samsonsoturian6013]

And replace them with who? Everyone's favorite genocidal Bantu?

[@jdzajdza]

@@samsonsoturian6013 brainwashed

[@samsonsoturian6013]

@john-henryduckworth6115 who? Me or the Chicken Man?

[@Tars_1981]

Racist policies that don’t allow those of a certain race, to enter the spaces needed to fix the problems. BBB-EE.

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

BLACKout

[@ReaperKing705]

Decolinisation at work

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Way too late to ascribe to that. This is mostly due to how BEE has propelled many illiterates and/or felons into skilled labor positions due solely to their demographics.

[@jaja3359]

''Freedom'' in exchange for corruption and poverty, lmao

[@samsonsoturian6013]

@@jaja3359 "Freedom" is a euphemism for "domination" in Africa.

[@mervinmarias9283]

I could see it from day one. The ANC's goal has always been to send us to the stone age so that we can live like peasants.

[@Fruitjoke]

A 2nd nuclear Power plant was supposed to be built 12 years ago, that never happened. Back in 2019, Solar just began to take off in SA, but the pandemic and limited supply (despite demand) is dampening the green energy transition.

[@svenabborre5599]

I hope politicians world wide learn something from this. South Africa was not like this. Everyone knows why the change came.

[@tradertrading123]

Elaborate

[@Cleisthenes607]

What is behind the South Africa's energy crisis? There were these pale skinned hominids that used to be one third of the population of South Africa but for some reason after 1994 their numbers started to collapse and just coincidentally alongside their collapsing population everything else started to collapse. Remember correlation is not causation. Really, I have no idea.

[@okiemuteaafia8615]

It appears that South Africa is emulating Nigeria in its electricity pursuit. I do advise that South Africa should act now and decisively with regards to it's electricity challenges, otherwise, they will lose their industrialization drive and GDP growth and have to contend with more poverty...

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

That's the way the African National Congress (ANC) wants it. Exactly the same as the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriot Front (ZANU-PF).

[@waynekennedy7922]

Lol welcome to the rainbow nation. Take a look at your neighbor Zimbabwe to see the future of South Africa

[@sdkfz2519]

Is there even one single well run, functioning left government in this world except those in Europe? It is amazing that South Africans could so quickly deconstruct their country despite all its natural wealth,good universities, and human capital (except that some of best brains began leaving the country) Bravo!!! Don't be surprised if in 10 years we have another Venezuela or Zimbabwe version 2.0.

[@revisionistcrap211]

Functioning governments in Europe? Yes, those who cut their nose to spite their face. Those who import our coal, up about 720% in the first 6 months of 2022, because the transition from coal power plants was so successful and lets not mention sanctions. What is not mentioned here is the lower grade coal used in our plants, because of corruption and theft, while the high grade in exported. But authorities assured us coal exports has nothing to do with loadshedding, it's just a coincidence that last year was the worst ever.

[@sdkfz2519]

@RevisionistCrap South Africa has been in decline for at least a decade. Corruption and crime have been growing, while investment by the private sector (and by the government) has been in decline. With respect to the "coal" question: Don't blame the EU. Firstly, they paid for it, did they not? Second, South Africa is selling coal to China (its biggest costumer), and it has plenty of excess production capacity. The problem is not coal export. The problem is corruption (at the government, local and personal level ....including many regular citizens who have little positive output for their society) and lack of investment.

[@dirkfolscher3001]

The natural wealth is in the hands of a select few people, and has been for well over a hundred years, benefitting countries like the US, UK and Israel. The Universities are a shell of their former self, and the human capital is lazy, all wanting to be students in these useless secondary learning institutions, "studying" in useless fields and 90% never even graduate. Don't think this decay just happened because of bad governance. This was planned decades ago, and the goverment was installed, to facilitate the complete destruction of the country, which should have been one of the richest countries in the world.

[@Pkxvk]

Dont talk bullcrap the only reason Venezuela and Zimbabwe are like that is because of western sanctions and military dictatorships

[@rorkesparks2598]

@@Pkxvk nothing to do with all the farms taken and destroyed?????

[@hiveknight3853]

i was in SA in 2019 and till now i'm watching this video, nothing has changed and i'm afraid i can't write the reason behind this problem for racist reasons but everyone in SA know what happened.

[@Ben-hb4my]

Wait a minute, you mean power stations need maintenance? Nobody told us that when we were given the country

[@looneytoons171]

"I would have never seen this coming" - Mugabe when he booted the hard working people out. ANC - "hold my beer".

[@solomonokoli212]

So basically, Zimbabwe 2.0? Lol, to think everyone once had high hopes for that country. It's shocking how South Africa has deteriorated, so war-torn countries like Libya and Iraq now have better infrastructure and living standards. I mean, even Venezuela doesn't experience this level of blackout.

[@kathysmith3503]

Meetings of meetings of meetings.....

[@akhonambalula9436]

From cape town🇿🇦 i sick and tired this energy crisis

[@sonyalawrence2785]

They say stage 2 or 3 but power remains off for 10+ hours, this government doesn't give a damn of us

[@CulturalXplorer19]

Funny, as I am watching this video, power just went off again. South Africa has no future

[@krollpeter]

One of the most beautiful countries in the world ... on a slow downslope since more than 20 years.

[@ybbgraphicdesign]

Very sad how such a beautiful and successful country is going down because people don't except the fact they can't manage a country on themselves.

[@moaianface]

So europeans should just baby sit them? Let them drown

[@projectacuhope]

Pride comes before the fall.

[@saras3632]

Same as lebanon

[@hinthegroove9740]

and Puerto Rico

[@tedpappas8939]

they removed the white government of Apartheid, which was in control of South Africa, it was one of the most wealthiest countries. When Nelson Mandela took control, anarchy reigned. So South Africa enjoy what you did

[@Charlottes_WorldWideWeb]

Why are we lodshedding?" -corruption -lack of expansion -lack of maintenance

[@godfreyberry1599]

The 'unknown expert' trivialises the corruption/cadre deployment/ wholesale theft factor along with slapdash maintenance and an overwhelming culture of non-payment for services rendered. These factors are really at the core of the problem - and I'm no expert.

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

South Africa = Zimbabwe 2.0

[@andreameintjes4696]

South African has had these power problems since the mid 2000. It was only called loadshedding in 2007. They've not been able to fix the problem in 16 years. Madness.

[@heinuchung8680]

ANC seems to be proving boers right that they would destroy South Africa.

[@mthunzimapatwana]

They don't know what to do period

[@lm_b5080]

freedom fighters don't mean they'll be good leaders, unfortunately

[@JK0628]

We have two brand new coal stations not all his old,but the ANC goverment f cked that up. Steeling money and incompetence.

[@clinthalkett-siddall9681]

To add to this electricity is increasing by over 18% (they wanted 32%) so that they can cover their mismanagement and this will have a massive impact on our economy with companies already losing out when they can't work due to no electricity and now have to pay 18% more on electricity. A lot of South Africans are losing jobs and not being paid on the days they can not work due to no electricity which will in turn lead to more crime. In the mid-1990's the government/Eskom was told they need to look into new infrastructure but did nothing about it.

[@bobfrank3882]

they are split that 32% over 2 years. 18% this year and 14% next year

[@javabrown4851]

Very sad to hear this. SA could be the shining country in the world.

[@the_real_hislordship]

More like a Christmas tree. Lights blink on and off.

[@gordondwyer3641]

@Pierre van Wyk A bit like the thought processes of those in power.

[@deonhattingh3868]

Heartbreaking.

[@michaelhardman7022]

The highest average school education of an ANC South African Minister is around Grade 6. They appoint a former Minister of Housing to Minister to run the Department of Military Defence. Appoint ANC lackeys as CEO`s / Ministers with no tertiary education to run SAA, Transport, Eskom, Tourism and SABC. 60 % plus of the municipalities are under financial administration. It`s a total mess and sadly one I cannot see SA ever recovering from. We are into deep.

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

Time to get out, Michael. Or maybe the ship has sailed?

[@michaelhardman7022]

@@JohnSmith-xx9th I can leave anytime. I spend 6 months in Spain and if I feel like maybe visit SA for a week.

[@TatendaMangoro]

Have you guys heard of the power cuts in Zimbabwe? And there are no emergency meetings being held by anyone. We are having 18 hour power cuts. 👏

[@lucan8189]

Slowly turning into another Zimbabwe. Well done ANC ✅