[EEGator]

Just ask the Wakandans for help…

[frank ballenger]

Why Eskom is in so much trouble?
Corruption and mismanagement of Eskom, most notably during the Jacob Zuma administration, have exacerbated this energy crisis; neglect by Eskom staff in addition to multiple acts of sabotage and the activity of criminal syndicates within Eskom with alleged political connections have also contributed to ongoing power supply problems.
——Wikipedia.

Sound like Dem run US cities. What’s the problem?

[MinorityRepublican]

That's too bad. South Africa should have been split up into five or more nations after the fall of Apartheid. That way, the ruling ANC would have ruined only one nation.

Right now, it's still possible to salvage Cape Town so they should declare independence.

[tomkat]

Negronomics strikes again ?

[nevadapatriot]

Strange things happening in South Africa, so strange. What could it possibly be caused by?

[MachIV]

America’s future.

[BobL]

Let’s just say it takes a certain type of people to run First World country, and South Africa no longer permits those people to run things.

Seems to be happening in the US and if it continues, there is literally NO WAY for the US to avoid the same outcome.

[thegagline]

We saw this story played out over and over again. When the blacks take over, be it in Detroit or Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, it all turns to crap. It is just the way it is.

[bigfootbob]

Just exactly what is Eskom? Another shining example of just how bad the entire journalism craft has become. Write a whole article talking about failure but fails to tell us who and what.

[Cen-Tejas]

When I gave up living on St. Croix (US Virgin Islands) in 2013, electricity was over 50 cents per kwh, generators were on their last breath, high voltage electrical lines were hanging 5 ft off the ground everywhere.

Today, the most recent report I could find (June 2022) has “some” good news and some awful news. The “good” news is that they hired Andy Smith to run the utility, the bad news is that the COST of a kwh today in St. Croix is .57 per kwh. The amount they collect is .41. For some perspective, my rate in Central Texas is .08 cents.

Add to the foregoing that in 2022, St. Croix had a 92.1 homicide rate. The highest in the world at that time.

[marktwain]

A few weeks ago, I had lengthy conversations with a Canadian pipeline specialist, aged about 65, who married a Zulu woman, aged about 34. I asked why he was so optimistic about South Africa. He said: "The kids there are so much more knowledgeable than their parents. They have access to so much more information over their phones."

I asked: how is that going to keep the electricity one?

He did not have an answer, except to claim South Africa was not Zimbabwe.