Why the lights are going out in South Africa - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2023
- South Africa's President Ramaphosa says its energy crisis is an "existential threat" to South Africa's economy and social fabric.
He's promising to bring the daily power cuts "to an end", but already the country has experienced hours of blackouts almost every day this year.
So what's being done to actually fix South Africa's power issue?
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This is what happens when corruption and incompetence goes unpunished at the voting polls.
Bring back Aparthied South Africa and see how the white folks run things
please pray for rain in Novocherkassk
This is what happens when you support socialists and communists.
@@ilyasergeevich7621 ❤
It is estimated that ANC will fall below 40% of election win because of Eskom ongoing loadshedding.
AC=alternating current
DC=direct current
ANC=absoluty no current
Monsters, all of them.
Perhaps the ANC should change their name to WMD. It seems far for appropriate.
Actually ANC = we accept all currency
@@mensrea1251 ANC stands for Absolutely No Current.
African National Cants
All the Cants, can't do anything good
They are
I am a 23 year old South African citizen. These blackouts have been happening since I was 7. Things have been getting progressively worse over the course of my life but lately it feels like the country has reached a breaking point. Literally everything is falling apart, the blackouts are just one aspect of this. I can't tell you how soul-crushing and hopeless the situation is. I am one of the privileged few in the middle class, I cannot fathom what the poorest of the poor are dealing with. All I know is that I will cast my vote in next year's national election and then I will do everything I can to get out of here because I cannot spend the rest of my life in this hellscape. It will break my heart to have to leave my parents behind but I really have no choice if I want any sort of safe, secure future.
Just remember that the poorest of the poor voted for the ANC.
Best of the best of success to you, Janine. 🍀🍀🍀🍀
My family got out 24 years ago.
My immediate family at least.
Some relatives got out earlier, some later,
Most are still there.
Vote for the Organic Humanity Movement. We need complete system change before we can fix eskom.
Liar... power cuts started just before covid 19
@@vincent_hall Did the door hit you where the good Lord split you?.
The worst part is that government won’t allow private companies to provide power
ya i saw some article were Eskom is suing farmers for making their own power, the government needs actually fix shit and stop blaming everything on something that happened 30 years ago. Wonder how long until they start pulling us into court for these "racist" comments xD
Oh yes they will. Be guaranteed mr patrice motsepe and Co will the only ones allowed to participate. Watch the anc sell those power stations off to their mates for a nominal one Rand each.
So what is the plan then?
@@africanhistory get rid of them. ASAP
What more evidence is needed to admit that black leaders lack intelligence?
Great to see this getting more global coverage, the country is crippled by corruption
Not just corruption, rampant crime, unemployment, demanding workforce & a freebie mentality is slowly sinking the country.
You mean crippled by BLACK people
Why would that be… Hmmm!
In America, we harvest the personal data & intellectual property of everybody to dominate the markets ☺ haha
Who’s going to come give a hand ?? The international space cadets?? Or Ghost Busters?
I live in South Africa and you can not imagine how horrible it is to live without electricity. Try to drive home on a dark winters night with no lights on the roads. The roads are almost impossible to drive on due to horrendous pot holes everywhere. The ANC have utterly completely let down the people of South Africa. People can't cook or heat their homes and are freezing now that it's winter.
😂 Living in Zimbabwe is like playing in hard mode! I haven't bought more power in over a year coz I literally don't have enough time in the day to use what I already have😂 It makes sense why people still brave the limpopo coz no matter how bad it is over there right now (catching bullets aside), it's still better than over here😅
At least there's still a little hope for things to get better for SA. Your elections still mean something and your uniformed forces mostly keep to their lanes (at least in public). If even that domino falls, it'll be time to get those visa applications going.
So why haven't the whole country taken to the streets like they would do in France, England, America or any other normal thinking people.
@@JohnThomas-li2vi Good question. The whole country should be. I think its because everyone not supporting ANC is basically scared to. (And not without reason. There is a lot at stake.)
@@JohnThomas-li2vi Because this will solve absolutely nothing. The money is getting stolen. We can't strike it back. Our best chance is to vote for a better political party that will root out this corruption once and for all.
@@madharaboy I don't think so personally want to leave out of Africa but It's not easy. The people here are really apathetic and to easily paid off you can buy votes for around R300
As a student here in SA its really a difficult thing to our studies and safety. It is a great country with tons of potential but it needs action against corruption.
Blame the whites?😅
@@nanoobis Your group has destroyed the entire world and can't live without destroying everything they touch. Return home to Europe and colonize each other 😂
@@nanoobis Your group burned billions of acres of forests, driven millions species to extinction, and put holes in the ozone layer. SA isn't even a real country.
@@nanoobis He is not to blame for the actions of others. I am also a student in South Africa and it's a difficult situation we are going to have to fix.
It HAD great potential while Whites still had their country. Their country OR their labor that built that country was stolen. The useless blacks stole the country and turned it to shit...
I live in South Africa. I wish I can put my frustration and anger into words.
bliksem donner fok en kak. no apologies
Your fault idiot
This is literally happening to every state owned entity. Hospitals, education, post office and airline is on the brink of collapse. It breaks my heart as a South African
STOP supporting Russia, otherwise you're just a shithole country
You wanted democracy, you got it.
Never had this problem when another group of people ran things. We told you you weren't ready. We're still laughing
Well its not due to power outages, but the rest you say, thats also happening here in,,,,,, Denmark.
Mind you it is in slow motion, but there are just 1 route for us, and it is dictated by gravity and stupidity.
How's the corrupt South Africa doing these days?
The ANC is the most incompetant government you could imagine.
not incompetant - their roots are terrorism and they haven't stopped that - just doing what they've always done on another level.
biggest mistake the people of this country did was give a functioning state to the anc !!!
@@jhelm1712 I'm wondering if it is selective stupidity or a complete inability to think of the experience from any other perspective than your own. Or maybe you've been living in a bubble, of the suburbs that you are completely unaware of what others went through. Still singing the same song of missing apartheid years later. It is scary.
I am not for what is happening now, but I don't see why the alternative is the previous government. Why is the alternative not a better government? One that can see ALL people as equal AND be efficient.
@@MJ31579 Unless I'm missing something from other threads that's not what he said. He didn't say put the previous government in power, he just effectively said that the ANC is incompetent and shouldn't have been put in power.
"hold my beer" says every western country leader. They are trying their utmost best to match the government of South Africa. Look at the decay in the USA, Canada, America Europe. Still early days but just look how far backwards we (western countries) have gone in the past 10 years (since 2008 really) - mostly in the name of "carbon neutral" bull!
I'm a Korean student that is living in South Africa.
The energy crisis wasn't as serious as it is now. The radio every morning is talking about a total grid collapse, and nothing else.
All the traffic lights, or robots, as we call them here, constantly breaking down, not being able to cook a nice, warm dinner, and having to sleep in the cold due to the power cuts is just miserable.
They are stealing the traffic lights now.
As a fellow south african im glad our power situation is now known globally
How do you keep your ice cream from melting?
Will that solve the problem?
The corruption and incompetence of the ANC has been obvious for almost 3 decades. No jobs, poverty worse than ever, infrastructure falling apart and no electricity. But guess what... Nothing will ever be done to punish them AND 60% of the country's population will still blindly vote for them in the 2024 election. I've been hoping for improvement for over 20 years, but things have just gotten significantly worse. Very sad
Why on earth do people vote for the ANC then? Or are elections rigged? Is it the poor and unemployed voting for the government which has made them stay poor and unemployed? It sounds a LOT like Russia.
Because the DA is too white, and other alternative EFF is more incompentent and racist scumbag.
Yip, that 60% votes for them because just before elections, food parcels and t-shirts are delivered to them and again, they believe that the ANC is the only government to vote in.
Sounds like America
South Africa is what a failed state looks like
One word. CORRUPTION!
Skipping down the road to a failed state. Some would say its there already
Is that why none of you have heat?
The word starts with N
Yes indeed. No dreams can happen with corruption - only deepening corruption.
3 words:
*A* frican
*N* ational
*C* orruption
People in the comment section will never understand until their sewerage facilities fail due to no power. It is what South Africa is going through at the moment. Pumps are failing and sewer is being backed up and flowing onto the streets, into the rivers and into the ocean. Its revolting
The government completely letting its citizens down. I am South African, the country is falling apart. Corruption and incompetence is a disastrous combination. It breaks my heart. Our lovely country with its lovely people.😢
As a citizen of Johannesburg it’s fascinating to see rolling blackouts finally reported on news such as the BBC. I must emphasise that this is the fault of the ANC, it is their making, and they will do whatever they can do to distance themselves from it. I pray that they will be removed from power in my lifetime
Why aren't people putting solar panels on their homes? Adelaide in South Australia has gone from an inadequate power generation system to being unable to handle all the power produced because of the popularity of solar.
I would have thought a solar and battery solution could fix this problem far quicker than coal power plants. Another thing Australia is closing down as solar power is so much cheaper.
I did not expect so many responses to his comment Not a lot of people liked it but I have learned more about South African politics in the last week than the last year. I am sorry to hear about so much trouble caused by greed and corruption when there are answers that would make everyone richer.
I'm frankly impressed the production facilities lasted this long after Apartheid. It's not about to improve, if they skipped maintenance for 30 years this will only keep spiraling out of control.
Very sad to learn of this topic and for something so key for day to day life. I don't know much about SA politics but having one party in power for all that time cannot be healthy for any nation.
@@grogery1570 Solar panels are large and require easy to access cabling with metals with resale value, both of which are prime stealing candidates in this country. You can see this going many years back even with international projects, such as the square kilometer array where people would drive to hill tops to remove parts in vans for resale.
Adelaide, South Australia would be better served focusing efforts on nuclear power as that general region of the world has the highest quantity of easy to access Uranium and excellent universities with history going back more than a century in nuclear research.
The prices for energy is extremely high in Adelaide for the resources available, indicating you have some level of corruption also -- just manifesting differently with your standard of living propped up by sales of raw resources nationally. Here in Osaka Japan the imported liquified natural gas, etc. comes in large part from Australia and general living costs are much cheaper, but with the cost worse working conditions. You are really lucky to be in a country that can support better quality of life just by digging up and selling things, but also this can tend to some corruption elements as in South Africa.
@@grogery1570 people go off-grid for homes for convenience. Without guaranteed feed-in though, it's expensive and not many can afford it. Even in Australia it's more expensive where no generous historic subsidies and feed-in contracts are available.
I remember talking to a South African contractor in London in 2000, he said he'd left the country because following the end of the troubles, all the major utilities and government contracts had been subject to large scale corruption, and nepotism with contracts being awarded to completely incompetent or corrupt individuals and organisations.... only 23 years ago, and it looks like he was right. Tragic.
blame china
You must feed the comrades brother. 😅
The Irish engineers sat at the Dros restaurant in Witbank drinking ect instead of doing their jobs at the power station/s. So they asked me ..take them to the Tin cups bar up the road, in Witbank and I took them there.. I sat down having a beer when all of a sudden some Afrikaners arrived and beat the hell out of them..don't mess with Afrikaans women which apprantly one of them did before .. the barlady said why don't you help your friends? I said that they are not my friends I just showed them how to get here.
Afterwards a turbine blew up because the black 'engineer' was screwing a girl in the bathroom and the only other fella pressed the emergency STOP button at the turbines which didn't work so the turbine ran away..exploded..pieces were found km's away..the engineer was promoted! No one was in the control room. Sounds like Chernobyl or ok the Russians today.
I remember talking to a taxi driver in Cape Town in early 2000. I had just come from Zimbabwe and was telling him I hoped South Africa wouldn't go the way of Zimbabwe. He scoffed at that and said it would never happen. He also said he was about to emigrate to Israel.
@@defeatSpace nope space man. Blame western-Africa capitalistic influence
My mom has been in two minor accidents at the same big crossing due to sudden loadshedding cuts. It's really aggravating and it's been the same problem for YEARS
Yes..absolutely shocking state o affairs..delaying answers to allll these problems...lying as to the absolute realities..re eye witnesses accounts.o stocking up the Putin's warship in December with armaments...they..like putin..adamently..refuse to change...pocketing..as u heard..millions upon millions...as in Putin...would be Heaven sent if NATO could step in....then would be as in a Waiting room..eg.. Ukraine...endless..rudderless...( Hope Serge you've electricity..let me know..lost contact)...Love South Africa...🎉🎉🎉🎉
I live in South Africa but my family is lucky enough to earn in USD so we haven’t faced most of the effects of loadshedding. Still, with the way the country is going it feels inevitable that we will have to leave one day. It hurts though because it’s still my home. I hope that eventually things will be sorted out and we won’t need to worry about such things but god knows how long that will take.
How do you earn USD if I can get $10k I am out
This is how reporting should be done, no fluff, no propaganda, just straight up information.
In America we harvest the personal data and intellectual property of Africans to dominate their markets & peoples minds ☺
Nope... You can smell the presenter's bias.
and no one used the N word as explanation! Very impressive, what glorious woke days we live in LOL LOL
@@BBC600 Nah bro there is no bias here, Eskom is destroying the country. The reporting is 100% accurate, no South African apart from the politicians will disagree with this report.
@@BBC600 you can see bias even when it’s not there
Living in South Africa is increasingly becoming difficult each day. God save our nation and country.
In America, we harvest the personal data & intellectual property of africans to dominate the markets ☺ hahaha Dollar STRONG, Africa DOMINATED
Unfortunately this country can not be saved with the ANC in charge.
God can not save you while everyone continues to vote ANC. Besides, isn't the ANC Christian?
Literally animal farm
when people rely on unreliable sources for help, then the only result is emptiness and puzzlement when people ask themselves why nothing was done.
yet when people rely on each other, then progress is made, societies are born and stuff is done as the people helping each other are doing so to improve there lives.
religions, gods and the like hinder hope because they get the unaware to believe in such things when the truth is the religion is an unreliable source of progress and hope.
I'm from a part of SA where hundreds of trucks carrying coal can be seen travelling to Mozambique to be sold every day...and what makes it worse is SA sells electricity to it's neighbouring countries, never not fulfilling their quotas 😢
Because that's your key export you have nothing else to give
Would you rather have full time electricity and barely empty food shelves or 8 hours of electricity and proper access to food
Your country is way too much what is it like 60 million 30 million of which who don't work?
I just hope south Africans stay in south africa we don't want over population in our country
Im from South Africa. You got to have balls to live here. Life is getting tough.
How's life in Cape Town?
Corruption is the name of the game, in each ANC generation they do the same.
Yes and the south African people ABSOLUTELY deserve it all, for voting for this stupid political party again and again for how many years now?
They vote for them for no other reason than the fact that they're black and the history with nelson Mandela. In other words, they're racist against all the white people in the country. It's reverse racism to get back at the white people for the injustices of the past. And all it does as a result is breed long term corruption.
Hey, that rhymes
EVERYONE in that country that votes ANC is at fault. I've never been to South Africa, but I've watched their parliament and it's the biggest circus in the world.
An absolute joke and it's amazing that the people are not embarrassed by it, but keep voting for it. Absolutely deserved, because it's such a massive majority that votes ANC.
@@eddietat95 of course it does, I'm a song writer ....
please pray for rain in Novocherkassk
Thanks for reporting on this ongoing crisis. As a US expat living in SA for almost a decade, it's an ongoing train wreck. What that country could be with a good government is hard to overstate.
There are literally trillions of dollars of wealth waiting to be made, yet the socialist focus is on redistributing wealth already made. You need a capitalist government to focus on economic growth.
Such a fancy word for immigrant - expat.
A dysfunctional lobbyist controlled, gridlocked US govt with an astronomical unsustainable ever increasing debt, soon to face TRUMPS retribution return is an ideal example of good governance for SA.
@QetteshFor example:
Ppl are getting shot in the US. Others turn into zombies bcos of drugs. Homelessness is increasing etc. etc.
I can say more but I won't because I find nothing plausible in grandstanding on others misfortunes n sufferings . It's not funny or wise.
The new Africa is now rapidly emerging to earn respect. Global leaders are all over Africa scrambling for resources. This time, being so nice n smoothy because they know the odds.
Thank you though for your goodwill wish for Africa. Wish the same for your country in a fast changing world. We also pray that the fall of others doesn't become painful.
Black as i am, I won't set foot in the US. I detest cops mistreatment of human beings.
Cheers
@Qettesh
Well, how do you like the 'clown' that is President now?
Curious in Canada.
I am a student and I live in South Africa. Not only are businesses affected but also our studying schedules are affected. We are approaching June exams but we don't have lights and WI-FI to study at night and it's almost winter we can't even use our heaters. Libraries are always full, sometimes you can't even find a seat because students from all the residences go to study in the library during loadshedding hours.
We should all pray for our country 🙏.
I am so grateful that the world notices what is going on in South Africa.
Watching your country descend back into the stone age won't help you. The only way to save what civility remains (if it's not too late) is to bring back apartheid. If you don't separate yourselves from the primitive people, you will die with them.
And then what's going to happen after they noticed?
@@leratomoreki9002 with the current leaders, nothing.
Unfortunately they also have their own issues, some bigger, some on the same level. But yeah not a good place to be in.
Youyou understand that once this is aired out to the public the rand will lose confidence and plummet the country into a state like Zimbabwe
Unless you are here, living this hell, you cannot imagine what it is like. The impact on our children is severe. Continued loss of power causes upsets in schooling, doing homework or even just basic recreation. You just sit in the dark waiting for the power to come on. The impact on mental health remains unmeasured, but hear this here: we are fast becoming a lost and hopeless generation. How do you build a future with that?
Literally fewer Black South Africans had electricity than the Dutch/English colonists during Apartheid. Only the Whites benefited from Apartheid while Black people lived in abject poverty. The ANC lifted millions of Black South Africans out of abject poverty and they are the majority and will continue to vote for them until there's a viable option. Not the DA (who only support their White middle-class base), not the EFF or FF+ who are White Supremacists.
@William Braddell They're disgusting people. Colonists trying to colonise other places.
Surely it must also radically impact other industries and infrastructure.
How, for example - can you run any large scale chemical / fertiliser plants under such conditions? Do they generate power on site, or have such industries just packed up and left?
It seems like a matter of time before the lights go out for good in South Africa.
Dark times indeed.
You try to build your future in another country. NZ for instance. Braaivleis , rugby , sonneskyn en Suid Afrikaners.
When we are in stage 6 for about a week together - that’s between 10 and 12 hours without power a day - the water pumping stations can’t stay online so anyone living up a hill loses running water as well as electricity. Water treatment facilities, hospitals, warehouses, and grocery stores are not exempt from the blackouts. Consider the need to boil water to make it safe to drink (without power for a kettle), the impact on hospitals needing mission-critical generators to keep systems running (especially during a pandemic with a need for respirators!), and the food waste in both bulk fridges/freezers and your own home.
I’ve been a Johannesburg resident for the last 3 years. The impact on daily life is intense and shocking.
This is so sad, i live in the US, and have a very close friend in cape town ... i hope The truth comes to light soon! Hugs to all of you dealing with this madness.
Thank you for creating international awareness of the reality of daily life in South Africa. Our country has been crippled by the governing party. We are teetering on the brink of the abyss of total collapse. How sad for a country that had so much promise.
I live in South Africa and I can confirm that it’s much more than 9 hours a day. 😔
Too true - I’m in Morningside Johannesburg and its been 11 hours every day this week.
Assuming no faults. In North Riding down the road we’ve had a 37hr, 21hr and 10hr single outage in just a week
How in the world does anyone work and earn a living without power daily? Do your homes and businesses have generator backup? Our business couldn’t function without power, I am at a loss to how anyone’s could in 2023.
@@ashdav9980 - with great difficulty…
@@ashdav9980 Many businesses and some wealthy residential estates have back-up generators. The economy has to go on.
Since the ANC came into power their main aim was to remain in power at all costs enrich themselves through the process and do as little as possible to deal with the issues that plague the country.
Now that the US has proof that the ANC government has provided Russia with arms, sanctions could be looming and this could be the final nail in the coffin.
Mxim...
No chance. The US will continue to give ANC what it wants, to do otherwise creates unnecessary political problems at home. Even Trump didn’t go there. Democrats never will.
@@jimdake6632 you mean, if the west shuns the corrupt ANC government, they'll turn to China and ruzzia and that is enough of a threat to overlook all mess the ANC creates?
Yes South Africa is skating on VERY thin ice.
South africa doesn't even have enough weapons for its self. How can they have extra weapons to give to Russia ? America just wants to bully SA. To hell with the Yankees!
Another thing to consider is this. One company I know of is supplying 17 large generators a day to Cape Town alone at the moment. These are the big ones. The company I work for has just installed one of these. It has a huge price and because it is supplied from overseas this is large amounts of money leaving the country due to loadshedding!
South African here! I don't think loadshedding will ever go away. It pretty much happens everyday.
It's gone away now
As a South African having moved to England in 2021. Having experienced COVID-19, Day 0, and stage 6 loadshedding, 4 hours a time, 3 times a day. It was mental. Absolutely mental. Schools unable to operate, a daily water limit per person.
I am 19 now.
Still in contact with people and family in SA. It’s still mental. Cyril has done almost nothing but lie about solving any of the above mentioned issues.
They have gone on too long.
South Africa is my country, it’s people are my people. We must stand, all over the world. Light must be shon upon this state of corruption and madness.
That is why they don't fix the electricity because they don't want light to be shown on corruption.
You are not South African, you are European 😂 welcome back home. Tell your family to return with you
How is it your country if you have moved somewhere else. Imagine how my generation must feel - recruited into the SADF after school at age 16 to put your young life on the line fighting the Cubans in Angola - and for what? For nothing - so many young men cut down before life even started and what for?
Yebo!
As if there were no Covid lockdowns in England. Not even talking about 'forced' vaccinations.
Isn't this in many African countries, here in Tanzania its a normal thing for a long time now
I am surprised that the BBC has not blamed Jan van Riebeek for South Africa's electricity woes. LOL.😂
I was pleasantly surprised that for once the BBC gave a very fair and balanced report on SA's failures.
Or blamed apartheid for it.
@@anna-mariedupreez542 Yes apartheid is used as a scape goat for everything that the ANC stuffs up.
Why would they?
@@anna-mariedupreez542 Lover of apartheid
One thing you did not mention was that, while the ANC has repeatedly stated that it is committed to getting rid of any alleged corruption, they also voted in parliament to not investigate the alleged corruption at Eskom.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 my eyes are watering. I am soooo frustrated to have to live like this. No insight is occurring
Exactly... F...them and Ramaparra. And also the DA with their USA disinformed views on Russia and the USA proxy war.
@@izetteroos6888 Solution is simple. Vote the ANC out, across the board.
@@Christobanistan I think we’re past that. We need stockades and gallows.
@@Christobanistan eye roll...
As a South African who's been living with since since i dont even know what age...this is hell
Just so glad its being noticed properly world wide,this corruption needs to end
Loadshedding is utterly exhausting. You can't properly plan your day because everything revolves around the few hours you have access to power. It's especially difficult as an online student
South Africa is setting an example to the rest of Africa in how not being able to run a country economically. You can not employ people with no experience in doing just that, not knowing.
Lol! Africa needs no lessons in that!
Your sentence structure is terrible!
Zimbabwe anyone?
The whole world
Too many racial theory degrees, not enough engineering degrees
ANC is just beyond repair. We just need new leaders please. 🙏🏾
This goes far deeper than the ANC...it's the people themselves. You've had 30 years to straighten things out.
@@scottmac-cheeserae4531 u bubas wanted ramaposa now u got him deal with it
Sir, you only get the Government you deserve....
@@ivanbasson982good leaders come from good parents, by the Grace of God.
In America, we harvest the personal data & intellectual property of africans, to dominate their markets haha ☺ The US Dollar GREATER than Africa 😃
As a South African myself, videos such as these are both funny, interesting and sort of sad to watch.
In 2006 to 2010 thereabouts 16 power plants were rebuilt the best they could. When money was allocated the people in charge bought themselves new houses and top of the line luxury cars. Corruption you bet!!
Even from afar ( England ) we can see what has happened to South Africa since ANC took over. We could also see dramatically the mentality of a lot of the people when they practically destroyed the railways etc during Covid.
I feel sorry for the Law abiding hard working people being surrounded by this greed and corruption.
It's very difficult for any country which has suffered apartheid, be it religious or racial, immediately to forget the past and be a beacon of probity from year one.
After decades of deprivation and exclusion, a new majority black government will be bound to have rotten apples who think "I want a piece of the action here now" and try to fill their boots. It's happened ever since decolonization. The abused become the abusers.
Mandela was in relative terms a titan of morality who kept the self-serving thieves at bay.
Since Zuma's chaotic reign, it has all gone to pot.
@@Thedrewzz Please don't blame apartheid for the shitty governance SA is facing now. The real issue is the socialist/communist policies combined with corruption.
@@Thedrewzz Come on, corruption is a huge problem right across Africa. Its normal even the police are corrupt and shake down people for money.
Africans are hopeless at running a state. Haiti has been a black country for 200 years, but it is in chaos and on the verge of collapse. When in power Africans turn to pure greed and oppression of others.
@@janco333 And where are the socialist/communist policies born from, if not the misery experienced under decades of apartheid?
@@Thedrewzz stop making excuses for multiple errors...the first step to correction is admission, something ANC and their kind are unable to do...
Before 1991, SA had never seen any power cuts.
Yes, i cannot remember a power cut EVER. How i took all in this beautiful country for granted. Sad to say, but paradise has broken down.
Before 1991 white folks ran things
There actually were a bunch of power cuts, mostly caused by the ANC planting limpet mines to blow up power pylons.
That’s because 70% of the population didn’t have access to electricity or running water
My dad works for Eskom and he told me back in the 90s Eskom produced so much power that they didn't know what to do with it so they would sell some. Country gained massively. Now 10-20 years later it is the complete opposite...
As a South African, Cape Townian, there's more going on then meets the eye especially regarding the power cuts aka loadshedding
Thank you Redi
My neighbors (70 years of age) who spent 5 months every year on a retirement visa in Somerset West, sold their house a few months ago. The reason was load shedding, a very unpleasant treatment in the SA embassy in Amsterdam (in order to obtain a visa), Russian war ships in the port of Cape Town and the all present corruption over there. My advise is to get out of SA while you still can.
Easier said than done sadly
Russian war ships in Cape town harbor, there are American warships in almost every harbor in the world. Remember Russia is only fighting one war and America is envolved in 17, wake up it was America and Britain that gave this country to the ANC to destroy.
This is my country and I would not ever leave it the white man will build it up again thank you
@@coralgardiner6695 💯
@echoespast exactly
Absolutely crippling to small business and the whole economy.
may they loose it until they stop sending weapons to russia. sick people
@@esperandodiabela1766 thats a terrible thing to say, the people of south africa have nothing to do with that and almost all of them are against the current government
@@esperandodiabela1766 Such an ignorant comment. The vast majority of South Africans hate their own government and its not Something the can just proteswt and solve as there is wide spread corruption making it difficult to fix as the entire system is broken. Then as for the support to Russia , that is due to the BRICS alliance. I doubt I'd see a fraction of even 1% support Russia. So your judgement is sick. Cluelessly calling an entire nation of people sick whne you don't have the slightest clue about the people. I hope it feels good being that entitled. So mindblowingly ignorant.
@@joeyhoward-williams8853 they just got caught shipping weapons to RUSSIA wake the hell up
@@joeyhoward-williams8853 Yet they keep voting for the ANC... Weird how that works.
Not me getting an Eskom ad before watching this video😭😭
i'm watching this during loadshedding
The sole purpose of our power stations is to fund Range Rovers, as a side effect electricity is produced
True.
The real problem is that the majority of the black population don't want to give up on the ANC despite all the failures and corruption.They poll as of today at 52%,way much more than they deserve now.Its actually really sad...
They are getting what they deserve then.
Vote on emotions, lingering effects of Apartheid, the ANC plays to those emotions to their advantage, detriment of the people. Reminds me of Poor Whites in Red States who consistently vote Republican and voted AGAINST their own self-interest since November 1980, no universal healthcare, shit education, bad infrastructure- poorest states in the Union are Red States.
Too stupid to vote out the party that has betrayed them in every way. Stupidity.
@@DickCheneyXX There are many people in SA who have never voted for the ANC and never will but are suffering and they do not deserve it. Unfortunately many of these people do not have any option to leave the country
@@antonycatella5901 Surely the border security of your neighbors isn't that great.
Great reporting
I live in South Africa - Watching this just pisses me off. I want to be patriotic and I want to live in this country but the government is making it difficult for citizens and then you get people that tell us to go back where we come from... like piss off if it was that easy I would have left years ago.
I grew up in South Africa, toward the end of my time there, about 4 years ago, power cuts, what we call load shedding typically only happened twice a week for 2 hours a day
Having recently visited to see my family it was horrendous. 8 hours of daytime with no power, in fact when I landed a power substation had malfunctioned, leaving my hometown without power all day
The effect this is having on people is brutal. Can't effectively freeze your food, can't run small businesses without a generator, can't live in a country loaded with natural wealth
The government is crippled with corruption, there's no future for the vast majority of people, and it's unfortunately why I left my home
Let's hope more choose to leave. Let's make South Africa Great again.
Haha 😄 go back to Europe. But you welcome to visit.
Hope you didn't move to the UK because give that place time. I lived there for 18 years and to me it looks like it's going back to the 1970. And that wasnt so hip
What could possibly have changed to cause this?
You made the right choice. Instead of things getting better, they are getting worse and worse.
Two words,incompetence and corruption.
I've always said ignorance, arrogance and corruption.
Wish there were Way's to try and submit ideas on how we can help stop load shedding.
I'm sitting with an idea on how we can generate electricity the hydropower way. Though I'm not quite sure lf how much it can go,but it would've helped if we had a chance to expose our ideas to engineers and they sit down with you to try and gather as much ideas as possible so that we can help tackle the pandemic
No mention of the daily mavericks report?
I am doing business with SA for the last 8-9 years and I am traveling there alot. It's unbelievable how this country is regressing in every way possible. Corruption, crime, stupidity, missmanagement....
Not sure if it's just ANC or something else.... but one thing is sure, this country is going in a very bad direction. Sad for a country with such a huge human and resource potential.
All by design and it's coming to your country too. In fact it's already started you just don't see it yet.
No, It IS the ANC.
We call men in dresses women.... so there you go...
@@deborahmanning8031 You must be from South Africa yes? No need to try and bring another Country into the same light. South Africa is going backwards, end of story. It is 2023 and not enough electric supply, what a joke!
@@deborahmanning8031 P.S Please attach the link with your info on why other Countries are going in the same direction, I mean you must have a source for your statement?
🇿🇦 A day in the life of a South African. Yesterday our power was off between 00h00-02h30, 08h00-10h30, 14h00-18h30. Today we're off between 00h00-02h30, 08h00-10h30, 16h00-18h30, 22h00-00h30. We factor this into running our businesses, internet connectivity, using power tools, appliances, cooking, lighting our homes, charging phones, boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. Wealthy businesses and affluent homes have installed diesel-powered generators and solar panels. The rest of us make do. Less privileged homes suffer greatly. The effect on our economy is disastrous.
The writing was on the wall when the country was given to those who did not build it.
@@scottmac-cheeserae4531 Are you a racist?
Not all of us 👀 we at Umlazi we have cutout of 2 hours a during the day and 2 hours on early morning...it not bad as you put it.
@@scottmac-cheeserae4531 who built it then? Let me guess the white 😆
@@nzuzobrian6488 yes that's exactly who created South Africa, it isn't even up for debate. Everything about SA that was worth anything, is worth anything is because of European settlement.
"Don't worry,
We'll make a plan." _ South African proverb 🇿🇦
Eish.
I moved to South Africa in 1998 from Germany. Nelson Mandela was president and there was real hope and enthusiasm in the country. I built a business and employed multiple South Africans. About two years ago I gave up and started preparations to leave. I am now living in another country and I have not regretted it.
The ANC has ruined what could have been an african success story proving all the haters wrong. Unfortunately corruption and incompetence will bring South Africa to a similar low-point like Zimbabwe reached 15 years ago.
People in Cape Town will realize it late but South Africa is already well down that path.
100% true !
Cape Town residents are Liberal tree hugging Green hippies.
I don’t know a South African who isn’t trying to leave.
There's simply no other parties for Black South Africans (who are the
majority) to vote for. The EFF are Black Supremacists. The FF+ are White
Supremacists. The DA only cares about middle/upper-class
White/Coloured/Indian people. For the majority, the ANC are the only
viable option.
I have no pity for a people who murder and torture children of White farmers the same farmers who supply their food...I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THE REST OF THEM WHO STAND BY AND ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN
Basically the problem is the ANC
Vote DA!
South Africa is a beautiful country ❤
Yes but doesn't have power.
the land is beautiful but the government is corrupt and incompetent!!!!
Funnily enough I got an ad from Eskom before the video started😂
Levels to this 😂
Thank you for reporting this. I still have a lot of family in South Africa and they struggle every day and not just with loadshedding.
@@N198h we have been sending money monthly.
Not just loadshedding...
But it will take the BBC another 10 years to dare adress those.
blame china
I live in South Africa, the best way to describe it is like a walking zombie. Looks like its operating but its long dead.
do you think it will ever change?
@@blartversenwaldiii It will change yes, the problems will just get bigger and more extreme.
I was told South Africa was once considered a borderline developed country. It is now a borderline failed state. Such a shame.
South Africa seems very similar to my country, Argentina. I wonder where our breaking point is.
Currently in South Africa and I'm watching this with the power off. 😭
Well 60 million blacks will ALWAYS vote for them thing expecting different results. The definition of insanity. Country is finished. Whites built it, now destroyed
When everyone was leaving New Zealand there was a saying...." last one out please switch off the lights"
it seems in SA you don't have to....they are already off.
Oh my God. I have bought solar charger for my mobile phone and never used it. Now I understand in some parts of the world it can be really useful.
Where I live Electricity can go for days, sometimes water
I salute the citizens of S. Africa who try and continue with their daily lives, compromising and fighting to keep their businesses and families going under very difficult circumstances.
Thanks for your sympathy.
So why do so many of these citizens vote for the party that creates these 'very difficult cirmcudsntances'?
Thanks Lauren. That is very kind of you
this is madness in another country ramaposa would b handcuffed in jail
@@WellLane Unless that "country" was California where pretty much the same things are happening.
Funny that I get an advert from Eskom asking if I understand loadshedding schedules.... 🙄
Well you know what they say:-
AC stands for altinating current
DC stands for direct current
ANC stands for absolutly NO current!
Look at any country or even company.. The outcome always starts from the top.
If any brits have noticed an uptick in South African accents in towns near them this is one of the biggest reasons. I left SA back in 2017 when it wasn't even half as bad as it is now and I just don't know how people go on, I don't speak to anyone back home anymore because it's only ever bad news. Listening to all my friends suffer and watching my country slowly die breaks my heart.
And for the better you adding your hard work and integrity(tax) to a country who knows what they are doing, 90% of RSA wants out...
I get that, Nothing but negativity every day stuck in a loop complaining about the same shit its really taking a toll on mental health down here people losing it
Christ it must be bad if you want to come and live in the UK...I want to live in Tenerife or one of our so-called "commonwealth" countries that's got sunshine but am trapped on this fuxxing miserable prison island in the coldest, wettest most miserable bit too (not so) Bonny Scotland
Noticed more and more SA living in Surrey for last 25-30 years and I always ask them why they moved here and the first thing they overwhelmingly always say is the same thing and that is that they no longer feel safe in SA.
With those who can leaving SA, particularly those with skills, SA is going downhill and is the only way until it implodes with civil war and becomes a mess like the nearly all the rest of Africa which are on a knifes edge like Egypt at the opposite end of the Continent, though a major problem there is population growth as well as corruption. No doubt War for water is coming, but I veer from the subject in hand.
@@user-rv4mq3xv3p the old adage goes "the grass always looks greener on the other side". Granted the UK is not perfect but listening to people in the UK complain always makes me giggle. You guys have no idea what it's really like to live in a failed state. You guys take so much for granted in the UK. Great weather is meaningless behind 20ft walls spiked with barbed wire and electric fences, no electricity and in some places no water, no access to tangible government support of any kind what so ever. Utilities that have not seen investment since the ANC took power. Infrastructure being stolen. Public coffers being looted. Extreme and frequent violent crime. No job opportunites for anyone who isnt politically connected. Aggressive "empowerment" policies that undermine south africas effectiveness. The list goes on. The UK is heaven compared to SA
Corruption in our country is very high 😢
Oh yes, but can we really expect anything else from sub saharian Africa? No.
@vvv corruption in SA since 1994 is what killed SOUTH AFRICA..
nothing but unadulterated GREED & self service whilst their very own people are starving to death literally however please note the size of the all these anc comrades they must eat very very well...
But the little African child in the township starves to death a VERY painful way to DIE...
Thank You CancER it's not heartwarming to witness how you treat your own people but have much to say of apartheid...
Hypocrites
@@newstuff1107 that sounds a bit extreme. Where are you from ?
@@thestream1
Extreme as in truthful.
@@thestream1 Extreme? Everyone knows this. You think people were born yesterday?
Interesting
ANC... Nuff said!
BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) appointing people that is not qualified
What’s wrong with BEE they were disadvantaged for over 200 years
In our small town, in the Karoo, the power outages of 10 hours a day mean the water reservoirs don’t have time to fill so, no water either.
That's terrible.
Oh my Lord. Can't you prevent that? The Eastern Cape has areas ith no loadshedding due to water supply issues.
Same in my part of Joburg, loadshedding turns off the water pumping stations and our water stops after a few hours.
Similar problem in Polokwane.
This is also the case for many parts in Joburg and Tshwane, it's so horrible
Sad, south africa was considered the only real developed country in africa, now it is crumbling, always wanted to visit but now I probably wont
The president of South Africa is on record as saying "it is not the governments responsibility to provide its citizens with electricity". Thats the shit we deal with.
It's crazy. In the noughties and late 90s the rest of Africa looked up to South Africa. Now we don't want to end up like them.
Then transfer the power to white people.
Yip since 1994..
What is the common denominator.
I am a Sudanese born in 1990s but I never looked up to South Africa, I looked up to Botswana.
Literally fewer Black South Africans had electricity than the Dutch/English colonists during Apartheid. Only the Whites benefited from Apartheid while Black people lived in abject poverty. The ANC lifted millions of Black South Africans out of abject poverty and they are the majority and will continue to vote for them until there's a viable option. Not the DA (who only support their White middle-class base), not the EFF or FF+ who are White Supremacists.
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS. SHAME ON THE ANC. I am literally sitting in loadshedding as I type this.
Same here .
Shame hoor, strekte kwagga
Same here
So am I!
got yourself some solar panels, a battery and an Inverter. I'm afraid your going to have to save yourselves, you can't rely on your government.
mmmhmmm
My country is in shambles man
30 years ago. SA was a technologically advanced, first-world country with a nuclear weapons program. Now, it's a crime-ridden hellscape.
Go home!
@@United-States-of-Africa truth hurts but he forgot to add Racism to the list of SA past achievements.
@@United-States-of-Africa are you going to eat your ballot for dinner? You can vote now too bad there's no power water or work. Could have kept your mouth closed and enjoyed the benefits. kon jou beters bedien het nou kry jy net bitters bedien
I wonder what the change was 😂
@@Bewar3-rd3qh racism is in every country on the planet.
Well it took longer for the ANC to wreck SA than I thought. Mugabisation is well under way.
We skipped the Mugabestan phase and are hurtling towards Haiti gangland!
Great reporting. Spot on analysis of what is happening in South Africa. Yet the same people, the masses, will keep on voting for the same party, laterally voting themselves and essentially all South Africans, 'out of power'. Einstein once said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Great pun on "out of power" 👍
leaving a bunch of goat herders and freedom fighters with the reigns of power over a relatively advanced economy, was always going to be problematic. especially given the kinds of promises the ANC has made to the indigent for their political support.
This situation was always going to come to a head.
Socrates had one major critique of democracy. He argued that it could only work when the base populace was educated and understood the pitfalls of power and the functions of government, otherwise the electorate could fall prey to charming, self-serving political charlatans with no real interest in public service.
His so called "sweet shop owner vs the doctor" thought experiment.
Remarkably lucid thinking for a man who lived over 2000 years ago.
To nurture a functioning democracy, there are some critical base requirements.
The voted for stupid here in Australia and they voted for stupid in the USA (supposedly).
It seems all over the west we have largely incompetent governments and lots of vultures descending on the countries to pick over the remains.
Energy poverty (and corruption) will bite a lot more countries than South Africa during the next few years.
Yep, when you allow the uneducated masses, that are just being fed ANC and EFF B.S. day after day, to vote... If you REALLY want to make a country work, then you MUST start to let ONLY tax payers vote and work from there: Work to increase the tax base and provide an incentive for all to get to the point where they CAN pay tax and thus vote... Unfortunately, way to many people in SA are intentionally being kept dumb enough (thanks to the EFF and ANC), not to pay taxes and thus burn their perceived enemies (those who do pay tax), jet, in the process they burn themselves also! FFS! It's so frustrating to see!
the masses will keep on voting because the very same corrupt government provided them with basics services like clean running water, electricity and infrastructure in the rural areas and townships
Things are just getting worse 😔
please help us
Greetings from a farm in South Africa: We didn't have electricity in 3 days. Our grid collapsed for 400 farms, main cables burnt through and no one can fix this stuff. We are on our own. This is the collapse of infrastructure. Going solar is the only way to survive. We are on our own. No help is coming.
So sorry to hear. Solar is expensive. You as farmers must provide food for the nation, and yet nothing gets done for you! Angry!😮
Dairy farms need power to run milking parlours.
If you're white, I hope you have an arsenal too.
blame china
Good luck to you.
What's scary is the lack of protests. If this happened in any other country every government minister would be dragged through the street until only the rope remained.
No not so. America blew up Germany's Nordstrom pipeline and no one protests. That's even worse.
This wont happen because it is the black majority .......(.which are screaming the loudest .)......that keeps them in power .......such is the hatred towards the whites..!!.....and then they try to tell everybody that blacks cannot be racist.!!...
Ih there are protests alright. Where infrastructure is burned and people are killed. But its the government voters doing it. Against the government they voted in. But the ANC takes no notice
I hope that people learn how to protest like the French. The energy ministers need a bathtub thrown through their windows.
We've all just given up since we know no matter who we put in power shit will never really change
What was the book called cry for my beloved country.
Loadshedding started late 2007. There is no way the ANC considers this an important matter, and they have no interest in solving this.