Thursday, January 31, 2008

Nationwide Load-Shedding scheduled for tonight at 7pm on SABC1

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Would all South Africans please note that the national electricity supply will be cut off between 7pm and approximately 9.30pm on SABC1, in ...

"Load-Schlepping"

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v. The act of driving around from suburb to suburb, across the Eskom electricity grid, in the hope of coming across at least one neighbourho...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Goodnight, Minister

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Benjamin Franklin. What a guy . Not only he did he put his quill to the American Constitution, not only did he serve his nation with wisdom,...

At last, a note of cautious optimism in the media’s reporting on electricity matters.

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Jacob Zuma, an unintended consequence of democracy

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I’m beginning to get the feeling that Jacob Zuma is going to be a really fun President of the country. I mean, he’s already turning out to b...

It is better to light a candle than to open the curtains

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So you think we’ve got problems with power because of the people we’ve got in power? Pause for a moment to consider the plight of the Pales...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Oh, no! A major global sporting event is under threat because of a shortage of electricity!

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Relax. It’s not the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. Or at least, it’s not only the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. It seems that the people in c...

Sorry to disappoint you, but it looks as if load-shedding isn't a South African invention after all

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Power outages that last for hours at a time. Clogged freeways and broken traffic lights. Eerily darkened malls, idle factories, candles flic...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Meet South Africa's new Minister of Public Enterprises

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I wish.

Let's all put our clocks back 10 years after the next power failure

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You know what I’m going to do as soon as the power comes back on after the next big power failure? That’s right, I’m going to make myself a ...

Could the humble lemon hold the answer to South Africa's national electricity crisis?

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Wind , water , sunshine , manure . Everywhere you look these days, there is an alternative energy source ready for the picking. (You pick th...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Please don't steal the street lights, they're not working at the moment. Thank you.

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Well, okay, there probably isn’t much point stealing electrical cable at the moment, either. From today’s IOL: Two held for theft of street ...

I'm going to put some of my spare electricity in a can and sell it on eBay

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Ebay, the global online auction site that is spelled with a small “e”, except at the beginning of a sentence, is a great place to sell anyth...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

"Load Rage"

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n. A feeling of steaming, seething, festering, simmering, bubbling, blistering, fang-baring, fist-clenching, teeth-gritting, head-pounding, ...

The lights are off and nobody's home: the Native Brilliance of Alec Erwin

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Alec Erwin, South Africa’s Minister of National Embarrassment and Public Calamities, is best known for saying that someone had sabotaged th...