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Minister of Energy Affairs – let them use wood!

Have just listened to the parliamentary debate on what is now called a national emergency and heard Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica say we should go to bed earlier to “grow and get cleverer” and that we should use alternate energy in the form of gas and wood!

Minister Erwin admitted maintenance capacity, coal [...]

Rolling Power Cuts & The INTERNET

There has been quite a bit in the media recently about the usefulness of Tshwane and Eskom sites as a means of helping with the management of power cuts.

But they really don’t work! the information is not reliable / usable! See screenshots below

Eskom showed power cuts underway in their meter but stated they [...]

Africa & The CDM

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) arrises from the Kyoto agreement and is essentially a mechanism that finances renewable energy projects. As part of the mechanism Designated National Authorities are established as focal points. Looking at the map below of all CDM projects Africa is clearly a looser.

Without South Africa, there are only 5 [...]

Super Sport – Crumby Commentries

I have really had enough – this weekend while listening to the Sharks Cheetahs game I had to switch to the Afrikaans channel! And at the time of the Super 14 & Three Nations I switched to Wrap from Down under.

This weekend’s commentary first:

I do not need to be told over and over [...]

Business on SABC

These comments by the presenter were noted on 31/05 & 01/06

“the GDP increased to 5%” commented on the “700 people” on the Civil Servant strike later corrected to “that should be 7000″

This is obviously nitpicking in isolation, but what does it say for the competence of the presenter on a reputable business programme [...]