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
[paywall: you can see the whole article in 'anonymous view' through startpage.com]
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:38AM (2 children)
Also see here for South Africa [blackagendareport.com] and here for Venezuela [blackagendareport.com].
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:52AM (1 child)
Half-truths presented in an emotional manner to paint some demographic as inferior or superior? Where have we heard that kind of thing before?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:01AM
The white European ruling class has quite a track record. All must rise against it, including working class whites.
n.b. The working class cannot be divided along racial lines or it will be forever enslaved.