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South Africans are paying up to four times more for electricity than a decade ago – and that’s to finance stealing and cost overruns at the Medupi and Kusile power stations. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan called numbers and statistics comparing Eskom of a decade ago with present-day Eskom "atrocious", saying tariff increases over that period mean ordinary South Africans are paying four times more than they used to. https://www.fin24.com/Economy/Eskom/gordhan-you-are-paying-4-times-more-for-electricity-because-of-stealing-at-medupi-and-kusile-20200122

Done the 116 many times, past few years I have done shorter version with a cycle to and from the venue I still get a decent distance.

Eskom chair Jabu Mabuza unexpectedly resigned on Friday, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced. In the wake of his resignation, Eskom will also get a new board, the presidency said. https://www.fin24.com/Economy/Eskom/breaking-eskom-chair-jabu-mabuza-resigns-20200110

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Squirrel who as DP was tasked to oversee all SOE's including Eskom, and even though under his watch expressed surprise at the amount of corruption that took place. Medupi has been a problem almost from the start yet he only saw fit to visit to the site for the first time a month or two back.

#Festive500 and goal done

EMBN's E-Bike Christmas Ride & Slide | With Joel Anderson, Georgia Leslie, & Steve Geall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTYNEPLZlI

More rewarding goal will be to pass 15000km ridden by year end, currently just over 500km short.

Umm yeah right

Way to go. Why am I not surprised. Although Ramaphosa has promised to keep the lights burning until 13 January, the new year promises to be a turbulent one for the flailing power utility. While the appointment of new CEO, Andre de Ruyter, has been welcomed by Eskom and the ruling African National Congress (ANC), trade unions have vowed to embark on crippling protests to oppose, what they deem to be, steps towards the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SEOs). Both the National Union of Metal Workers South Africa (Numsa) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are intending to mobilise 50 000 workers in January as part of industrial action which will further hamper the operational mandate of SEOs.

Load shedding due to corruption, mismanagement and inefficiencies, and we will be paying for loss of revenue. Cape Town - The public has until January 20 to comment on Eskom’s application to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a tariff increase to recover R27billion in losses from load shedding. This tariff increase will probably see electricity costs increase by up to 17%. https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/eskom-seeks-r27bn-for-load-shedding-losses-17-tariff-increase-mooted-39183348

So the planned "new intervention" is nothing more than regurgitated proposals and solutions not implemented. The governing party believes that its long-stated resolution on introducing private equity partners and diversifying SA’s energy mix is the panacea to Eskom’s problems. The ANC has peddled old ideas to save Eskom and SA from unprecedented power cuts, saying it wants to introduce strategic equity partners in the debt-laden power utility and diversify the country’s energy mix to include renewable energy into the national grid. While the ANC believes that these interventions are a game-changer, the diversification of SA’s energy mix alone is part of the National Development Plan, a policy that was adopted by Parliament in 2012 but the governing party has failed to implement. https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/anc-peddles-old-ideas-to-resolve-eskoms-long-standing-problems/ar-AAK2A5U?ocid=spartandhp

Yup or in this case above the ground.

Once again been reactive rather than pro active. Eyewitness News revealed on Tuesday that the president is flying home following the public outcry over his trip, which was announced shortly after South Africans were saddled with stage 6 load shedding. https://ewn.co.za/2019/12/10/load-shedding-ramaphosa-only-found-out-about-stage-six-after-leaving-for-egypt If you combine all the times Ramaphosa claims he's shocked (State capture, Alexandra, Esidemeni,state of SOE's etc) and convert it to electricity it would go a long way towards avoiding load shedding

Nothing like stating the obvious. Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa said this was bad for the economy, adding that the anger and frustration of citizens were understandable. https://ewn.co.za/2019/12/10/as-we-go-back-to-stage-4-ramaphosa-says-load-shedding-bad-for-economy

Site seems to bedding down, kind like load shedding it's been mostly unavailable the past few days I can get the "old familiar" look by clicking forums then active topics.

Happy to be be proved otherwise but I don't hold Ramaphosa, Gordhan etc in the same esteemed regard. Example The Eskom Chairman who was appointed by both, had the following to say. At a media briefing to explain why load shedding has returned and what Eskom plans to do about it, chairperson and acting CEO Jabu Mabuza responded to a question on whether he is the right person for his job by explaining that he didn’t apply for it and was there due to the decisions of President Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. “Am I the right person? I would have applied for the job if I had the qualifications and I wanted it, I didn’t apply for this. South Africans and the president and the minister must make the call,” he said. Mind boggling. Then there's the credit for placing SAA under business rescue, when i fact they were faced with an ultimatum, Solidarity requested this a while back but were dismissed, they then went the legal route and surprise, Ramaphosa then finally took action.

Our suburb had load shedding on Thu, the rest of the suburb came back on except our street affecting 10 houses. Phoned contact centre who kept insisting our power was out due to load shedding. Numerous calls Eventually on Sat our councilor made a fuss and they investigated only to find out the switch for our street had tripped, and all it took was to turn it on again almost 24 hours later.

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Is that for the 820 ? I paid R2401.00 Sept 2018 and when unit gave issues again in July this year I had to pay R2500.

I've had two refurbished 820's and both have had mapping for UK and other European countries. I think all that they do when they arrive here is load SA maps with 90 days warranty.

Replacements will likely be refurbished. I suspect that units handed in as faulty are shipped back overseas and repaired there.

I would hand it into local Garmin, a replacement unit for 820 is around R2500 so i expect a 520 to be less.

2 days later refund reflecting in my account Money for beers and pizza post 947.