"Little maintenance had been done for several years, resulting in a backlog of about R35 billion"
That's just the backlog, the tip of the iceberg in real terms! A cost compounded even further when considering any future economic growth, which also does not include projected maintenance and grid upgrades in order to increase capacity.
We are so used to hearing about billions and billions of Rand being lost or wasted these days that we just don't care anymore. Plus what does a billion mean to someone living in a shack, they can hardly comprehend what R10k is, so adding another handful of zero's onto this amount doesn't even register with them.
We really are in deep sh1t! To get the big picture of how deep the sh1t pile really is, combine this looming disaster with a few of the other self-inflicted major disasters that are lurking just beyond the horizon.... Namely the supply (or rather - lack of supply) of safe potable water, rampant corruption, the highest levels of unemployment ever experienced in our history, a failed education system, uncontrollable crime and an ever increasing unskilled, militant labour force....
The list appears endless! Our prospects for a happy future look very bleak indeed, the 'Rainbow Nation' is in tatters with only dark clouds ahead...my anc, my future ...yeah right...hey fat boy - Economic Freedom,not in this lifetime D00$...GOOD LUCK with that one people! Report Abuse
Oct 10, 2012
TheNewFreedomFighter
Soon after the ANC won the democratic election of 1994 they started to drive out white expertise from Eskom. Many resigned and left the country because there simply was no other option for employment other than Eskom. I have two friends who were among them. The one now runs a massive power company in the USA and the other has his own electrical engineering business in Canada. The plight that the ANC has put us in is a direct result of its racist policies. So yea, we have blacks in position now that were previously occupied by whites, yet look where that got us: electricity shortage, massive price increases; no production expansion; black outs etc. etc.
The answer to SA's problems is not in more racial policies that divide us and favour one race over another but to capitalise on the strengths of everyone. I wish someone could calculate the cost of opportunities lost as a result of the ANC's racial policies and then project those losses into the gains they could have resulted in in terms of social upliftment for black people in SA.
This dire situation is clearly explainable in the light of the current state of the ANC where they are so focussed on choosing between two equally useless people: Zuma has a track record that is apocolyptic to put it politely and Mothlante is a dark horse that has never given any indication of what policies he favours. He is so shrouded in secrecy that I suspect he has never applied his mind to this and so secrecy is his cover. What is even more disconcerting is he is supported by the ANCYL who espouse policies that will grind SA into a dust bowl and economic desert within months. Report Abuse
Oct 10, 2012
Mondi
We are in trouble!!!!
Everything seems to go from bad to worse. why dont we just maintain and improve the infrastructure we inherited from the previous goverment. Its so simple or am I wrong now? Report Abuse
Oct 12, 2012
Honeybadger
Was the same not told to Mbeki who chose to ignore? Report Abuse
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"Little maintenance had been done for several years, resulting in a backlog of about R35 billion"That's just the backlog, the tip of the iceberg in real terms! A cost compounded even further when considering any future economic growth, which also does not include projected maintenance and grid upgrades in order to increase capacity.
We are so used to hearing about billions and billions of Rand being lost or wasted these days that we just don't care anymore. Plus what does a billion mean to someone living in a shack, they can hardly comprehend what R10k is, so adding another handful of zero's onto this amount doesn't even register with them.
We really are in deep sh1t! To get the big picture of how deep the sh1t pile really is, combine this looming disaster with a few of the other self-inflicted major disasters that are lurking just beyond the horizon.... Namely the supply (or rather - lack of supply) of safe potable water, rampant corruption, the highest levels of unemployment ever experienced in our history, a failed education system, uncontrollable crime and an ever increasing unskilled, militant labour force....
The list appears endless! Our prospects for a happy future look very bleak indeed, the 'Rainbow Nation' is in tatters with only dark clouds ahead...my anc, my future ...yeah right...hey fat boy - Economic Freedom,not in this lifetime D00$...GOOD LUCK with that one people!
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TheNewFreedomFighter
Soon after the ANC won the democratic election of 1994 they started to drive out white expertise from Eskom. Many resigned and left the country because there simply was no other option for employment other than Eskom. I have two friends who were among them. The one now runs a massive power company in the USA and the other has his own electrical engineering business in Canada. The plight that the ANC has put us in is a direct result of its racist policies. So yea, we have blacks in position now that were previously occupied by whites, yet look where that got us: electricity shortage, massive price increases; no production expansion; black outs etc. etc.The answer to SA's problems is not in more racial policies that divide us and favour one race over another but to capitalise on the strengths of everyone. I wish someone could calculate the cost of opportunities lost as a result of the ANC's racial policies and then project those losses into the gains they could have resulted in in terms of social upliftment for black people in SA.
This dire situation is clearly explainable in the light of the current state of the ANC where they are so focussed on choosing between two equally useless people: Zuma has a track record that is apocolyptic to put it politely and Mothlante is a dark horse that has never given any indication of what policies he favours. He is so shrouded in secrecy that I suspect he has never applied his mind to this and so secrecy is his cover. What is even more disconcerting is he is supported by the ANCYL who espouse policies that will grind SA into a dust bowl and economic desert within months.
Report Abuse
Mondi
We are in trouble!!!!Everything seems to go from bad to worse. why dont we just maintain and improve the infrastructure we inherited from the previous goverment. Its so simple or am I wrong now?
Report Abuse
Honeybadger
Was the same not told to Mbeki who chose to ignore?Report Abuse
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