We can at least look forward to the fact that it will not be as bad as 2023, then 2024, then 2025....and so on. It can ONLY get worse, prepare to live for the rest of your life and that of your children with progressively worse blackouts.... And that is just a minor inconvenience when we don't have electricity at home. Soon there won't be sufficient electricity for industry, mining, manufacturing, water treatment plants, farming and food production etc. Soon unemployment will be above 70% or even 80%....and no fuel, food, water etc. It is going to get much, much worse before it gets...even worse than that. BBBEE afraid...BBBEE very, very afraid....
No possibly about it. This is not just the worst year. So far this year there has been more load shedding than ALL previous years combined. More than half of ALL loadshedding since Eskom began has been in 2022. And absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation so you can only expect things to get worse. Same for water, potholes, corruption, police, sewerage, unemployment,...
It's terrible to see how things are degrading in South Africa. I was last in Cape Town during the water crisis a few years ago but that situation was temporary but this eskom mess just keeps getting worse with no plan of how to put an end to load shedding for good. The rise in Kidnappings is also alarming and how can the country expect a thriving tourism sector with these two major issues. You can't expect people to pay for holidays only to end up with no electricity at time during their vacation. The only way this will ever be fixed is if Eskom is partly taken over by a European or Chinese company or consortium to put in massive technology upgrades and financial input
@@cccmmm1234 I agree that it's a very unattractive proposition in business terms, but the Government needs to admit that the problem is unable to be fixed internally. Taking on Eskom Dept as well as bailing out SA Airlines is just crazy economics. There is no shame in asking for assistance from other countries with better technology an skills. However letting false pride get in the way of fixing the issues is indeed shameful and a dereliction of duty to the people.
@@andyballard1883 You say the government needs to admit it. Just because you need something to happen does not mean it is going to happen. You might need change, South Africa might need change, but the current situation is great for Ramaphosa and his mates. So why would they change things?
@@cccmmm1234 granted I was talking under the theory that the government actually wants the country back on it's feet and a sustainable infrastructure for the future
😅People whose hustles succumbed to lockdown are chilling on hammocks with their kids by now. Instead of this, that, and the other new headaches South Africa keeps creating.
The darkest year....but only so far. As business starts to fail, the tax base will diminish significantly and their will be incrementally less money to implement these dream solutions we hear about. With businesses closing and the larger companies leaving, these will be accompanied by an increase in unemployment with an directly proportional increase in the crime rate. The major problem will be a shortage of food as there's absolutely no point in losing your life, as is the case with any career.
Keep voting for the ANC!!!
They are doing a FANTASTIC Job. 🤪
And this is only the start of it
We can at least look forward to the fact that it will not be as bad as 2023, then 2024, then 2025....and so on. It can ONLY get worse, prepare to live for the rest of your life and that of your children with progressively worse blackouts.... And that is just a minor inconvenience when we don't have electricity at home.
Soon there won't be sufficient electricity for industry, mining, manufacturing, water treatment plants, farming and food production etc. Soon unemployment will be above 70% or even 80%....and no fuel, food, water etc.
It is going to get much, much worse before it gets...even worse than that. BBBEE afraid...BBBEE very, very afraid....
Hate to agree with you, but I fear you are dead right in your prediction.
Wow.... Someone's looking gorgeous.
Did the experts with the skills find the problem yet?
It has been the worst past 28 years.
No possibly about it. This is not just the worst year.
So far this year there has been more load shedding than ALL previous years combined.
More than half of ALL loadshedding since Eskom began has been in 2022.
And absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation so you can only expect things to get worse.
Same for water, potholes, corruption, police, sewerage, unemployment,...
What about black outs the anc must get out.
It's terrible to see how things are degrading in South Africa. I was last in Cape Town during the water crisis a few years ago but that situation was temporary but this eskom mess just keeps getting worse with no plan of how to put an end to load shedding for good. The rise in Kidnappings is also alarming and how can the country expect a thriving tourism sector with these two major issues. You can't expect people to pay for holidays only to end up with no electricity at time during their vacation. The only way this will ever be fixed is if Eskom is partly taken over by a European or Chinese company or consortium to put in massive technology upgrades and financial input
Why would a European company want to take over a broken organisation like Eskom and provide services to people that don't want to to pay for them?
@@cccmmm1234 I agree that it's a very unattractive proposition in business terms, but the Government needs to admit that the problem is unable to be fixed internally. Taking on Eskom Dept as well as bailing out SA Airlines is just crazy economics. There is no shame in asking for assistance from other countries with better technology an skills. However letting false pride get in the way of fixing the issues is indeed shameful and a dereliction of duty to the people.
@@andyballard1883 You say the government needs to admit it.
Just because you need something to happen does not mean it is going to happen.
You might need change, South Africa might need change, but the current situation is great for Ramaphosa and his mates.
So why would they change things?
@@cccmmm1234 granted I was talking under the theory that the government actually wants the country back on it's feet and a sustainable infrastructure for the future
😅People whose hustles succumbed to lockdown are chilling on hammocks with their kids by now. Instead of this, that, and the other new headaches South Africa keeps creating.
The darkest year....but only so far. As business starts to fail, the tax base will diminish significantly and their will be incrementally less money to implement these dream solutions we hear about.
With businesses closing and the larger companies leaving, these will be accompanied by an increase in unemployment with an directly proportional increase in the crime rate.
The major problem will be a shortage of food as there's absolutely no point in losing your life, as is the case with any career.
Next stage is one of shutdowns and disaster
Expect more darkness in 2023... 2024 will be even worse.... 2025 likely the darkest... Maybe.... Just maybe... 2026 will have less