Once the highly infrastructure developed economic powerhouse of Africa, South Africans these days are more interested in the outlook for rolling blackouts. The country’s most-downloaded app provides schedules, alerts and forecasts for power outages.
Eskom, the state power monopoly, is struggling to generate enough electricity to meet needs, and has re-introduced a byzantine system of rotating outages known as “load-shedding.” On February 11th a whopping 4,000 megawatts of power, enough to power some 3m households, was cut from the national grid to prevent it from collapsing. Some businesses have bought generators and battery systems; others close during outages. In big cities, there is chaos at rush hour as traffic lights go dark. The blackouts suit copper-cable thieves, who can steal without fear of electrocution. And when the electricity is switched backed on, substations sometimes explode, resulting in secondary outages.
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2019/02/21/why-the-lights-keep-going-out-in-south-africa
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More on the situation:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/267263-south-africas-electricity-system-is-falling-apart-and-it-is-much-bigger-than-just-eskom.html
How to bring back the lights in South Africa?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @12:53AM (2 children)
Noticing that certain races aren't as good at certain things is BAD. You have been mass downvoted by SN's cabal of fags, trannies, betas, and other generally incompetent Hillary voters. Hopefully you have learned your lesson, otherwise we'll all gang up on you and call you names because of your lack of tolerance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @01:45AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:05AM
Yep, but it doesn't change the fact that it is still the truth.. as politically incorrect as it maybe.