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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: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:29PM
I hear double-good double-speak in that video. When all is said and done, Trump has committed no impeachable offenses, nor has he opened himself to charges of illegalities. If it could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, we all know that collusion with the Kremlin to "fix" the outcome of the 2016 election would be deemed impeachable. Mueller found no evidence of such collusion, or at the very least, he found insufficient evidence of such collusion.
I'm really not interested in lawyer speak, or rationalizations for failure, or theories about why evidence was hard to find, or any other leftist excuses for this grand waste of time. The left set out to impeach Trump, and they have failed to impeach Trump. That single sentence sums everything up nicely.