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Power cuts: Tourism group sounds warning over 2010

Johannesburg, South Africa

23 January 2008 12:30

South Africa may struggle to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup because of the current power cuts, the
South African Tourism Services Association (Satsa) said on Wednesday.

"We are hoping to have more than 300 000 visitors, all using electricity. The stadiums may have all the
most wonderful generators in the world to broadcast the games, but will people come to South Africa to
see them if they know they will be going back to hotels and guest houses with no power?" asked Satsa
CEO Michael Tatalias.

He said major building projects for 2010 were on tight deadlines and needed huge amounts
of power to run.

"The building work on the stadiums is also going to be widely disrupted. We have to ask ourselves
honestly if we can still do this."

Tatalias said the power cuts could destroy the country's tourism industry completely.

"The industry will take a huge financial knock this year. So far little attention has been paid to the
effects of continuing power [failures] on the tourism industry. And it will be badly affected."

He said more had to be done to protect smaller businesses, the backbone of the country's tourism
industry.

Tatalias said the provision of reliable information from Eskom could help.

"With reliable information we can develop workable solutions. We can probably make a plan to get
around the hassles, but it's going to cost. And cost is the key driver in tourism these days," he said. --
Sapa

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Bevor sie nun die Minen stilllegen, wird zumindest Goldfields an den wichtigsten Standorten
eine eigene lokale Stromversorgung mittels Generatoren aufbauen.
Schade, dass das Management solange gepennt hat.
Das ganze wird dauern und kosten.
Wie lange und wie viel vermag ich nicht zu sagen.

Gruß
Vatapitta

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/…otstand_aus_1.659886.html

Wie meistens jeden Sonntag sehe ich carte blanche, das thema heute ist elektrizitaet.
Eskom, hatte oder hat ein monopol mit ueber 70%, andere waren nicht interessiert wegen dem monopol und der ANC wurde schon 2002 gewarnt das ein Chaos kommt ab 2007 das man ignoriert hat.
Die guten Leute kuendigten bei Eskom da man sagte es gibt keine Befoerderung mehr als weisser Mann.
Dann brach Eskom zusammen und die Regierung verliess sich das Eskom weiter liefert.
Es kann sogar 15 Jahre dauern bis man wieder genug Strom hat, der Wirschaftswachstum mit 6% der die halben arbeitslosen unterbringen sollte ist nun in Gefahr.
Der Energieminister sagts jeder muss nun 25% Strom einsparen oder die blackouts gehen weiter.
Auch eine Loesung, klappt aber nicht.
Die Minen werden als erstes wieder Strom bekommen und wenn man Johannesburg das shopping center in Rosebank jeden Tag fuer Stunden lahm legt und wir Abends mit Kerzenlicht auskommen muessen. 40.000 MW sollte Eskom liefern, ein 6.4 billion Rand Geschaeft p.a. und nichts ging in weitere neue Kraftwerke aber in fette Loehne und Bonus fuer die Managers die heute faule ausreden haben.

Langsam wird es finster und noch schwaerzer hier als es schon ist.
Freefall, bis 2013 braucht hier keiner mehr investieren sagte ""versehentlich"" ein schwarzer Minister.
Der musste sich spaeter entschuldigen, stimmt aber.

Well done...[... del.] X(.no power , no money, more crime, sagte ein Arbeiter.
760 MW gingen nach Maputo (Mocambique), 476 MW nach Botswana, 51 MW nach Zimbabwe, und die anderen in Swaziland und Lesotho 250 MW waerend man in Johannesburg die Stadt lahm legt und Minen schliessen in der letzten Woche und der sechsfache Verbrauch der Stadt ist was nun teilweise unbezahlt in die Nachbarlaender exportiert wird.
Ich hatte hier schon 2006 gesagt das ich teilweise keinen Strom habe, jetzt wird es noch schlimmer.
[... del.]

Gnight,noch geht der TV und das Adsl modem.

XEX

Kenya ethnic clashes continue

2008-1-28 08:38

Naivasha - Hundreds of people from rival tribes confronted each other on a main road of Kenya's flower capital on Monday, hefting machetes, clubs and rocks and retreating only after a handful of police between them fired live bullets into the air.
It was unclear whether the officers would be able to keep them apart.
Ethnic clashes were continuing to convulse western Kenya, as gangs fought with crude weapons and set homes ablaze in this tourist gateway, pushing the death toll from a month of violence over the country's flawed presidential election to nearly 800.
The bloodshed - with Sunday marking exactly one month since the December 27 vote - had transformed this once-stable African country, pitting longtime neighbours against each other and turning towns, where tourists used to gather for luxury holidays into no-go zones.
Scale of violence 'worse'
It also complicated the task of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the latest international mediator trying to bring together President Mwai Kibaki and his chief rival.
While ethnic clashes had accompanied past Kenyan elections, the scale of the violence this year had been far worse. It had mainly pitted other ethnic groups, which supported the opposition because they felt marginalised, against Kibaki's Kikuyu people.
"We have moved out to revenge the deaths of our brothers and sisters who had been killed, and nothing will stop us," said Anthony Mwangi, hefting a club in Naivasha on Sunday. "For every one Kikuyu killed, we shall avenge their killing with three."
Kikuyus were the main victims in the initial eruption of violence, with hundreds killed and more than half of those driven from their homes belonging to Kibaki's tribe. Now, however, it appears the Kikuyus are looking for revenge.
Nine people killed
Some 55 bodies were counted on Sunday at the morgue in Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's fertile Rift Valley, where ethnic clashes erupted late on Thursday, said a morgue attendant who asked that his name not be used because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Bodies were still arriving on Sunday, although the running battles had largely cooled off. A local newspaper reporter saw another five bodies on Sunday in two slums on the outskirts of Nakuru.
The fighting spread on Sunday to Naivasha, 90km northwest of Nairobi, a previously quiet tourist town with a stunning freshwater lake. At least nine people were killed here by gangs with machetes and clubs, according to the count of a local reporter.
Five others burned to death in their homes, said Willy Lugusa, a police official.
The latest deaths brought the toll to nearly 800 killed in ethnic violence and clashes with police since Kibaki was sworn in for a second five-year term. About 255 000 people had been forced from their homes. International and local observers said the vote tally was rigged.

AP

BusinessDay

Posted to the web on: 28 January 2008

Eskom costs stricken mines R193m a day
Charlotte Mathews

Resources Editor

TODAY SA’s mines enter their fourth day without enough electricity to work underground, with each day of lost production costing the sector up to R193m.

While a task team set up at the weekend including representatives of mining, labour, government and Eskom agreed to restore 70% of the mines’ normal power needs today, this is not enough for full operations. It is the minimum needed for essential maintenance and servicing, including support of working areas, pumping and ventilation.

Without those activities, the mines become unsafe and can become inoperable.

Another industry-wide meeting will be held midweek with Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin to discuss the possibility of building up power supply to about 90%, which would enable production to resume.

Gold Fields spokesman Willie Jacobsz said the task team would work out what the 10% cut in power that the mining industry had been asked to implement would mean for the industry and how it could be achieved.

Mining accounts for about 15% of SA’s electricity demand.

Depending on the outcome of this week’s meeting, the mining industry could be without sufficient power to work underground for three to six weeks.

The mining shutdown could have huge implications for economic growth. Plans to sustain faster growth may be thwarted — at least in the near term. This is grim news, as SA had been expected to sustain an average annual pace of growth of 5% clocked up over the past four years — its fastest in 25 years.

“The economic cost is potentially enormous,” Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes said on Friday. “We have revised our growth forecast for the year down to about 3% from 4%.”

The shutdown has hit the JSE hard, with the gold mining index dropping 6% on Friday after news that SA’s big mines had suspended underground operations.

The news also weakened the rand, with a 2,4% drop to R7,15 to the dollar by mid-afternoon.

However, gold surged to a new record of $924/oz and platinum peaked at a new high of $1694/oz, reflecting investors’ anticipation of a shortage of the metals, of which SA is one of the biggest global producers.

In the past few weeks electricity shortages have hit households, industry and shopping malls, but until last week industry was implementing voluntary, not compulsory, load shedding.

Gold Fields said its South African operations produced about 7000oz of gold a day ( equivalent to $6,4m or R46m in revenue a day). Impala Platinum said it was losing about 3500oz of platinum a day (worth $5,9m or R42m).

Anglo Platinum said it could not disclose production or revenue losses because it was in a closed period, while parent Anglo American said it had not yet quantified the effect across its operations. Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll flew to SA yesterday to meet government and Eskom representatives today and to chair an internal steering committee on energy issues, said spokesman Pranill Ramchander.

SA’s mining sector employs about 460000 people but indirectly supports about 5-million, according to statistics cited last year by outgoing Chamber of Mines president Lazarus Zim. Data from Statistics SA for the three months to October suggest SA would lose up to R193m a day in mineral sales if all mines were affected.

The big mining groups, including Anglo Platinum, Impala Platinum, Northam Platinum, Lonmin, Gold Fields, Harmony Gold, De Beers and Merafe Resources, have reported a halt to some or all activities, while the smaller groups continue to operate.

Jacobsz said the weekend meeting was “productive and we are moving in the right direction”.

“What everybody understands is that it is not just a question of switching the power back on, but switching it on and sustaining it. ”

Anglo Platinum’s Trevor Raymond said mining companies needed clarity from Eskom on what was possible, as the mines could do a number of things to adapt to the situation, whether by rationing or load shedding. With Mariam Isa

http://www.businessday.co.za/a…tories.aspx?ID=BD4A693070

MfG

CATASTROPHIC

Ich gehe mal davon as das die Produktion von Gold und Platinum um ca.10% zurueckgehen wird in RSA in den naechsten Jahren.
Wenn der Rand dann um 15% faellt ist immer noch ein plus von 5-10% fuer die Aktionaere eventuell sogar hoeher durch den Hebel.
IMO trotz der Misere sollte man 20%30% Gewinn erzielen bis Ende des Jahres mit RSA Aktien.
Lohnt sich das ???? muss jeder selber wissen.

SA’s mining sector employs about 460.000 people but indirectly supports about 5-million
Darum bekommen die als erstes Strom, egal ob die anderen im Dunkeln sitzen fuer mehere Stunden am Tag sonst gibt es einen riesen Aerger und Gewalt wenn nichts zum essen da ist.

XEX

Der CEO von Harmony erwartet 75% Strom bis Ende des Monats, das ganze kostet fuer alle Minen ca. 6 millionen Euro Verlust pro Tag.

Super Planung bei Eskom, man muss nur das Management anschaun dann weiss man bescheid.

So was schlagt man nun vor...

http://multimedia.thetimes.co.…wkey=bcbeece3d9128ae855a7

Lets sing...

http://multimedia.thetimes.co.…wkey=4179d9b7b458a6ebdeb9

Eldorado, ich bin im großen und ganzen ganz deiner Meinung! Aber dennoch würde ich solangsam mal einen Rückflug in die Zivilisation buchen - sonst wirds hier bald noch langweilig im Forum

PS: Jede Wahrheit braucht jemanden, der sie ausspricht

Busy......don't worry..

Ps...denk mal nun ist Bodenbildung bei den RSA Aktien, AAUK nachgelegt.

Buy on rumors, sell on facts.....

Mom shot in heart - for cellphone

2008-1-29 07:26

Pretoria - The principal of a crèche was killed by a single bullet in the heart after three armed robbers overpowered her and her family in their home.
The robbers fled on Saturday from the house in Aquila Street, Waterkloof Ridge, with only a cellphone.

Rinda Abraham's husband, Eric, 60, and two of their sons, Reggie, 35, and Christo, 34, tried in vain to keep their mother alive while waiting for an ambulance.
The death of Rinda Abraham, 55, principal of the Kleutermaatjies Crèche in Centurion, follows that of Fred Picton-Turbervill, 46, of Aries Stret, Waterkloof Ridge, who was shot in the head in front of his wife and children earlier this month. He died a few hours after the attack.

A weeping Eric Abraham said on Monday: "I'm never going to get my poppet back."
Dog grazed by bullet
Christo and a friend, Theunis Claassen, 34, were sitting chatting in the TV room when the robbers struck.
Christo said: "Someone stuck his head through the sliding door and said we must remain quiet and calm.
"Another two followed him. Two of them were armed."
Christo's dog went for one of the robbers, and another fired a shot that grazed the dog on its upper muzzle.
Another shot was fired and hit the TV and DVD player.
Christo said: "One of the robbers stood in front of Theuns and me, pointing his firearm at us, while another one stood at the DVD player trying to remove it."
Meanwhile, Christo's parents had been woken by the shots. His mother ran down the passage, calling his name.
Reggie, 35, in bed by this time, also came out of his bedroom.
He said: "I went back into my room to get my firearm.
"Suddenly, there was a robber in the passage, who had been hiding behind my mother. He grabbed her by the neck and shot her in the heart," said Reggie.
Christo also saw his mother being shot. "Her last words before collapsing were, 'Christo, I've been shot'," he said.
The robbers then fled with Christo's cellphone.
Killed for cellphone
Eric Abraham said: "I know life has to go on, but for me it has come to a standstill. The dear Lord alone knows why they had to kill her for a cellphone."
The Abrahams's youngest son, Eric jnr, 30, said his mother's death was the saddest thing ever to have happened to him.
"I miss my mom," he said, sobbing.
Police spokesperson Prince Mokhabela said they were investigating;( the killing.

Beeld

PS. Man verlaesst sich eher auf sein Glueck als auf diese Polizei die korrupt, schwarz, und uninteressiert ihre Arbeit macht.
Die Todesstrafe fehlt, die schreckte zumindest ab in der Vergangenheit.
Anstatt Fussballstadien zu bauen sollten die mehr Gefaengnisse bauen, aber lieber lassen die sie ueberfuellt und laesst die Schwerverbrecher nach zwei Jahren wieder raus beim naechsten Mandela Geburtstag damit sie weniger kosten an Verpflegung und Unterkunft.
Diese Bastards lachen noch im Knast und planen den naechsten Mord und Ueberfall, ich habe das kurz selber gehoert und gesehen.

http://www.espace.ch/artikel_476274.html

Jetzt schiesst man schon vom Hubschrauber auf die Leute.
Wenn die Suedafrikaner das frueher gemacht haetten dann waere die Welt in Zorn, heute interessiert es keinen weil ja Demokratie herrscht.
Darum laesst man eher die weissen in Zimbabwe und RSA verrecken als das man sich heute einmischt.

Helicopters open fire above Kenyan town

2008-1-29 11:41

Naivasha - Three Kenyan military helicopters opened fire on Tuesday above feuding tribal gangs near the western town of Naivasha, said police and witnesses.

"The crowd is unruly and we want to disperse them, that is why we're using helicopters," said a police commander in Naivasha.

many dead....

More details to follow

Na das kann ja ein HIV/TB Take away werden, untersucht wird hier keine im Puff vom Gesundheitsinspector, was man nicht macht das die FWM startet.

OK prostitution for 2010 - MP

2008-1-29 21:05

Cape Town

An ANC MP on Tuesday proposed that prostitution be legalised during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

"It is one of the things that would make it (the tournament) a success because we hear of many rapes, because people don't have access to them (women)," George Lekgetho told a meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture in Parliament.
His suggestion was met with a groan of protest and chuckles from other MPs.
"If sex working is legalised people would not do things in the dark. That would bring us tax and would improve the lives of those who are not working," he added.
DA MP Sydney Opperman disagreed, saying one could not commercialise relationships.
"You cannot attach a price to the deepest union between a man and a woman and link it to our tax base."
They were speaking following a presentation by the Arts and Culture Department on its plans for social cohesion for 2010.
Another ANC MP, Christopher Gololo, said the matter should be "thrown to the public" to debate.
Arts and Culture Department Director General Thembinkosi Wakashe agreed with this.
Turning to other matters, ANC MP Peter Maluleka expressed concern that tourists coming to South Africa for the soccer event would be met with a "very glaring absence of friendly, welcoming smiles" in shops and other service centres.
Wakashe proposed that a campaign to improve customer service should be linked to the Proudly South African Campaign.
Wakashe outlined the department's wide-ranging plan for 2010. It included promoting social cohesion, eliminating poverty and racism and creating a suitable economic environment for hosting the cup.
The plan would also address social fragmentation, as was evident in high crime levels, and building and upgrading cultural facilities like libraries and art centres.
MPs called it "very beautiful", "a massive programme" and "over exciting".
When asked how much this would cost, Wakashe said the plan would be revisited and compared to actual allocations in the medium term expenditure framework.

SAPA

Mit Optimismus in Zukunft!

Schlaft laenger sagt unserer Energieminister.

Viva Afrika !

Gestern das Chaos in Kapstadt, puenktlich um 20 Uhr schaltete man den Strom zu 90% in der ganzen Stadt ab bis 3 Uhr frueh.
Ich vermute das problem ist groesser als man sagt, selbst viele schwarze fluchten gestern und sagten, scheiss Afrika !

No electricity, too little water, filthy hospitals, doctors leaving the country, cops on strike, robbers at every corner, ANC running it all.

Yello Banana Republic !!!

New Website::D

http://eskomsucks.co.za/

Vor ein paar Tagen stuermten Gangster mit AK 47 Gewehren in das gardens shopping center und raubten Woolworth aus mit Kunden im Laden kurz vor Ladenschuss.
Die Polizei kam 30 minuten spaeter....irrsinnig schnell !!

Naechste Krise in der Pipeline, die Infratruktur bricht langsam zusammen im Land:

SA faces contamination crisis

2008-2-3 14:44

Johannesburg - South Africa is on the brink of a water contamination crisis, potentially as bad as the electricity fiasco of the past few weeks, Business Times reported on Sunday.
In an alarming report, the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has confirmed evidence of contaminated crops and water, and has acted to protect people and livestock, the newspaper said.
The report - in the possession of the newspaper - is the latest of several recent indicators that government is no longer able to effectively monitor and manage its vast infrastructure of dams, pipes, pumps and treatment facilities.
Among the alarming findings contained in a series of reports are the following:
43% of dams managed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) have safety problems and require urgent repair.
An estimated R180bn is necessary to replace old water service infrastructure countrywide, including in the major metro areas.
Waste water from mining operations appears to have seeped into the country?s groundwater system - a process known as acid mine drainage -raising concerns about future water supply.
Vegetables and fish collected in the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment Area west of Johannesburg have been contaminated with radioactive uranium -and the National Nuclear Regulator is testing milk and meat from cows grazing in the area.
Water in the Wonderfonteinspruit area has also been contaminated by radioactive material, as well as by heavy metals and salts, the Business Times said.
Despite the NNR?s latest report - a follow-up to an earlier detailed report of contamination in the area - cattle farming continues and environmental activists are concerned that radioactive meat may be entering the food cycle.
According to the NNR report, contaminated sites are now restricted zones. The report concluded: "The study - has confirmed the presence of radioactive contamination in the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment Area. Regulatory actions were taken to ensure that people and animals were protected.
The regulator did not reply to Business Times? questions before deadline on Friday.
SAPA