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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @04:08PM (2 children)
So - what you're saying is - the president is covered by law. And, that's what you're interested in, right? The law? It's written right into the law. The president can do things that would send you or me to prison. Congress critters, likewise. Senators. Cops, federal agents, prosecuting attorneys - all of them can perjure themselves in court, and get away with it, but if they prove you or I did the same thing, we could see prison.
Laws, rules, regulations, traditions, custom, on and on it goes. And, Trump walks away from all the shit slinging a free man.
Now, get over it?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:01PM (1 child)
Actually, no, it's not "the law". The Constitution absolutely allows for indictment of a sitting president. It's just an opinion devised by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the 70s. It's selective enforcement of the nation's laws. Also, he can be impeached by the Congress. And he can certainly be INDICTED AFTER he's no longer pResident. Plus we have the SDNY criminal investigations into Trump and the 14 ongoing federal criminal investigations that are likely centered around his criminal family. My guess is regardless of whether anyone else is caught holding the bag, Jared's following in his daddy's footsteps to the Federal Pen.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:11PM
Oh yes, of course the constitution allows for the indictment of a sitting president, for "high crimes and misdemeanors". Now, will you kind define "high crimes and misdemeanors"? There's a catch though. Your definition must be approved by 66% or more of all Soylentils. If you don't get a supermajority approval of your definition, then your definition is just more meaningless shitzls.
I'm waiting with bated breath. (I'm also waiting for someone to tell me that I spelled baited wrong, LMAO!!)