Das neue Südafrika

Wenn der Neger am Schalter drueckt.

Second power cut in Cape Town

16/11/2005 15:45

Cape Town - Cape Town was hit by a power failure for the second time in a week on Wednesday afternoon.
Electricity supply to the city centre went off at 15:00, came back on briefly and went off again 10 minutes later.

Regional Eskom spokesperson Trish da Silva said this might have been caused by two power dips on the Eskom grid.

The dips, felt as far away as George, might in turn have been caused by a veld fire under the 44 kilovolt Droerivier/Muldersvlei line on which a fault had been reported.

Though the city centre was blacked out, Bellville, where her office was, still had power.

A technical fault on transmission lines from Koeberg nuclear power station last Friday cut power to the metropole and a number of surrounding towns for almost two hours.

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Wie der Dollar eine ""Wunderwaehrung"", denke noch an die Zeit wo mich die Banken ausgelacht haben mit meinen Rand.

Wartet mal ab, auf Dauer sieht es anders aus mit den beiden ""Waehrungen"".

Ihr solltet die Charts in Euro anschaun von den Kaffernminen und vergleichen mit den anderen grossen in der Welt.

Ich kaufe eventuell erst wieder wenn die Welt drauf kommt was hier wirklich los ist und der Rand eindeutig abfaellt.

Bis jetzt ist nichts von Randschwaeche zu sehen.

XAX

So eine Sch.... jetzt liefern die Kaffer auch kein Wasser mehr seit 6 Stunden, es wird immer mehr nach Camping Urlaub.

Bringt am besten Eurer Wasser mit 2010 bei der Fussball WM.

Also ich blicke nicht durch was da geplant ist, anderen hier gehts genauso die sich fargen wenn sie es sehen.

Hier wird wie wild gebaut aber die Wohnungen und Hotels stehen leer.

Fuer wen und was frage ich mich, die Neger koennen sich das nicht leisten und die meisten Weissen auch nicht.

Ohne rassistisch zu wirken das meiste Geld ist von Juden hier in Bauwerke gesteckt.

Wissen die was ich nicht weiss ?

Meine Theorie das man erst die Schwarzen ranlasst und dann spaeter mit eisener Faust mit korrupten Muppets von schwarzen Politikern das Land im Interesse von den Amis und Juden das Land wieder regiert wird faellt mir gleich wieder ein.

Da wird z.Zt. in der naehe von Johannesburg ein Touristen Projekt gebaut das teueste ueberhaupt fuer 340 Millionen Rand.

Ein nennt sich ""The Cradle of Mankind"" dort sieht man ein paar Knochen und Schaedel von Neandertalern und die erste Affen/Menschenmischung und denkt man ist hier am Ursprung der Geschichte der Menschheit. Ah,tut das gut, es war aber nicht dort sondern wo anders in Goro Goro Krater weiter Noerdlich.

Jetzt kommts, ....gestern war auf Carte Blanche ein woechentliches Magazin im TV ein Report das gleich in der Gegend in einem Jahr ca. 96 Farmer ermordet wurden und die Polizei machtlos zuschaut oder keine Leute hat. Es ist ganz brutal geworden und die Leute sind voller Angst und Sorge, viele ziehen um, einige haben eine Sicherheitsfirma beauftragt sie zu beschuetzen.

Eigentlich sollten die es umbenennen auf "" Cradle of Murder""

Was ich damit sagen wollte es widerspricht sich alles, aber es kann durchaus sein das RSA ein Zufluchtsort wird fuer viele reiche in der Zukunft, erst Recht in WW3.

22 % der Bevoelkerung hat schon HIV , es ist nur mehr eine Frage der Zeit bis die Bombe platzt.

Gruss

XAX

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" Ein nennt sich ""The Cradle of Mankind"" dort sieht man ein paar Knochen und Schaedel von Neandertalern und die erste Affen/Menschenmischung"

Sowie Angela Merkel mit Platzek ..................

Hey, really big JSE spender

Kevin Davie

21 November 2005 10:29


CEO Brian Molefe (siehe Bild unten)

Bigger even than Old Mutual, the governmentcontrolled Public Investment Corporation (PIC) now owns more than one in every 10 shares on the JSE.

It has R460-billion in assets under management and is the country’s largest single investor.

Yet its investment policies, largely in the “hot” areas of bonds and blue chip equities, appear conservative, to say the least.

It has almost no exposure to investments in previously disadvantaged areas such as townships. And its investments by one of its key funds, the Isibaya Fund, in empowerment, infrastructure, technology, small and new business are largely still, by its own account, in the planning stage.

In short, the PIC is helping fuel the growth of the developed economy while the government has made narrowing the gap between the first and second economies the top economic priority.

Corporatised in April this year, the PIC looks after the funds of the Government Employees Pension Fund, which account for 90% of the funds it manages.

The pension fund has 1,3-million members, who contribute through a monthly deduction of 7,5% of their salary. This brought in R18-billion last year.

It paid out R15-billion in the same year, as pensions and other benefits such as disability payments.

Membership revenues cover outflows, but the fund also earned R19-billion in interest income and R4,2-billion in dividend payments. Net cash inflows were R25-billion.

The pension fund’s assets topped R344-billion last year, worth R2,5-million each if expressed as an average value to each member.

The PIC has shown remarkable growth, with assets under management more than doubling from R221-billion in 2000 to R461-billion in March 2005.By June its assets topped R488-billion.

Its annual report says that its investments on the JSE make up about 10% of the value of shares listed on the JSE. “We are the largest investment manager in South Africa and the African continent.”

Of the R461-billion now under its management, 47% -- R218-billion -- is invested in fixed-income securities (bonds) and 38% -- R175-billion -- in JSE equities.

The PIC did not respond to e-mail and telephonic requests for a list of its holdings and to questions on its investment priorities, but it is now the largest individual shareholder in many leading South African companies.

Net income earned for the year ended March 2005 was R80-billion, including R4,5-billion in dividends, R23,8-billion in interest payments, R12,5-billion in realised share price gains and R38,4-billion in unrealised share price gains.

The PIC appears to be aggressively growing its stake in some companies. Its share in Sasol has jumped from 13,3% to 21,7% and in Old Mutual from 7,32% to 10,3%.

Investors, particularly foreigners, who invest in the bond and equity markets are sometimes characterised as “hot” investors, meaning that they can relatively quickly exit their investments.

The PIC has 85% of its investments in bonds and equities, the latter being confined to the blue chips.

Just less than 10% of its assets are in cash as money-market investments. Less than 1% -- 0,79% -- is invested in property.

Black economic empowerment (BEE) and small- and new-business as well as infrastructure development is funded from the Isibaya Fund, making up 3,57%, or R11-billion, of the total portfolio.

The Isibaya Fund was established in 1999 after an amendment to the Public Investment Commissioners Act to allow for 3,5% of pension fund assets to be used in socially responsible investment.

This is somewhat less than the 5% of institutional funds which President Thabo Mbeki has suggested should be invested in socially responsible investments.

Isibaya had a baptism of fire in empowerment funding, when the special purpose vehicles used to finance BEE deals collapsed as stock markets corrected in the late 1990s. It saw its R500-million book value fall to just R200-million by June 2003.

It funded the warehousing by the PIC of the Thintana stake in Telkom, this later sold in part to BEE investors in the Elephant consortium, netting a profit of R1,5-billion for the PIC.

Isibaya has also been involved in the funding of the Newshelf purchase of an 18,7% stake in MTN and the purchase of a 25% empowerment stake in Investec. In April this year the PIC bought back 12% of Newshelf stake in a deal designed to reduce debt.

Isibaya has also invested R150-million in township shopping centres through Futuregrowth’s property fund.

The PIC’s annual report states that Isibaya has implemented a new strategy. Presumably more investments -- in empowerment, medium-sized entities, industry, infrastructure and ICT (information communications technology) -- will follow.

One school of thought holds that the government should not build up dedicated pension funds, but should rather run these on a pay-as-you-go basis, meaning that should shortfalls arise between contributions and outflows, the taxpayer makes up the difference. This argument wants the government to be as small as possible and to concentrate on doing the things the government is supposed to do, such as building and maintaining infrastructure and providing the services that the private sector can’t or won’t -- health and education, for example.

It is not the role of the government to build up huge funds that own 10% of the JSE, the argument goes.

Based on this, the government could have used the R26-billion in net pension-fund income to build more infrastructure, for example, rather than increase its stake in Sasol, Old Mutual and other leading blue-chip companies.

But the government has admitted it cannot spend the funds at its disposal, the Budget deficit falling to an embarrassing 1% of gross domestic product from a budgeted 3%. This represents R30-billion in capital spending that has been foregone, because regional and local governments have insufficient skills to manage capital-spending projects in their regions.

The modern or first economy continues to race further away from the second even though Mbeki has identified the chasm between the two as the country’s primary challenge.

Speaking at the PIC launch in Sandton in April this year, Mbeki said that just nine civil service pension funds on the continent collectively hold in excess of $120-billion. The PIC makes up $70-billion of this.

“If we were to agree among ourselves to set up an African infrastructure fund, a possibility exists for us to start taking our fate, as Africans, into our own hands.

“This would give us the possibility to use our own resources -- perhaps with leverage from the African and international private sector -- to deal at least in part with our developmental challenges,” Mbeki said.

But the PIC shows this is still a dream. It finds it easy to invest in blue chip JSE companies, but has had mixed success with empowerment and far less success with infrastructure, technology and small enterprise development.

SEND YOUR MONEY NOW !

Current Account: Golden Moments

Nov 23 2005 07:18:09:150AM

By: Greta Steyn

THERE's nothing like a surging gold price to bring back that old mining town zing to Johannesburg. But, while the macroeconomic benefits of a sharp rise in the gold price are not negligible, they are much less than they once were. Gold may have the midas touch for the JSE Securities Exchange, but not as far as the economy as a whole is concerned.

Including platinum, mining doesn't contribute much to gross domestic product (GDP) and its contribution has been declining. Mining accounted for just 7% of GDP in 2004, down from 11% in 1990.

By contrast, there's been strong growth in the services sectors. Taken together, transport, storage and communication and financial and business services contributed almost 30% to GDP in 2004. This is quite a bit higher than the 22,7% the categories contributed in 1990.

The more services-based the economy becomes, the less able it is to absorb unskilled or semi-skilled labour.

Mining, once one of the largest employers in the country, today employs less than 500 000 people. Compare this with the trade sector, which employs more than 2,6 million workers. It's clear that the demand for labour is being generated by the services industries.

But what about the balance of payments (BoP)? Surely gold exports are still important? Yes, they are, but their share of total exports has plummeted.

Reserve Bank figures show that gold exports accounted for almost 30% of total exports in 1990. By 2004, this had fallen to less than 11%. Over the period, exports of manufactured goods have gained in importance. From being the single most crucial element in the BoP, gold has diminished to simply an important export category.

But the BoP picture alters when platinum and diamonds are added. Together, the category including gold, platinum and diamonds accounted for almost 25% of exports in the first nine months of this year.

The surge in the platinum price to 26-year peaks last week combined with the gold price at an 18-year peak makes a difference to the BoP. Despite GDP moving more towards services sectors, SA's BoP is still heavily dependent on mining.

A curious aspect of the peaks the platinum and gold prices reached last week was that they occurred at the same time as the dollar hit highs against the euro.

Usually, a weaker dollar is required for gold and platinum prices to rise, and vice versa. Now, however, it looks as if that relationship has broken down for the time being. The gold and platinum markets have developed minds of their own and aren't following the old rules.

This could have implications for the rand exchange rate. Though the rand will weaken when the dollar strengthens, strong precious metals prices could curb the domestic currency's losses against the dollar. This is what happened on Tuesday when the rand shrugged off a sharp retreat in the euro.

The question is whether the usual inverse relationship between dollar strength/weakness and gold weakness/strength will be restored. If the relationship is restored, it means the dollar's exchange rate is of paramount importance for the gold price.

One view is, however, that gold is increasingly being seen as an alternative currency to other major currencies.

The euro has fallen so far out of favour that gold is seen as a better option for central banks to keep their forex reserves in than the disgraced euro. Some central banks have indicated that they want to keep more of their reserves in gold.

In that scenario, euro weakness (dollar strength) will coincide with a higher gold price. That means the usually relationship will be totally reversed. But that's an extreme view. Sentiment towards the euro remains very sensitive to the interest rate outlook in the Eurozone. This sensitivity suggests the euro isn't yet ready to be consigned to the trashcans of international financial markets.

It remains to be seen whether normal relationships between the variables will be resumed again. One thing is sure, though - recent events in the currency and metals markets have been highly unusual.

If the situation continues, it will provide BoP benefits to SA that could prevent the rand from losing too much ground against the dollar should the dollar resume its record-breaking run against the euro.

Give us the facts on elephant culling

Fiona Macleod: COMMENT

21 November 2005 11:35

The Mail & Guardian had barely hit the streets when the CEO of South African National Parks (SANParks), David Mabunda, fired off an SMS accusing the newspaper of attacking him on a personal level.

In response to an article on elephant culling (“Roll up for the culling circus”), he said, I was using a public platform to “bash and trash” him. He even accused me of having a “venomous hatred of” him.

What is going on here? Does the M&G have a personal vendetta against Mabunda? Do we, as his spokesperson Wanda Mkutshulwa claims, pray hard for juicy quotes from critics just so that we can show him in a bad light?

On the contrary, the M&G has the utmost respect for David Mabunda. We put a lot of time and effort last year into winning a tender to produce a magazine for SANParks. Unfortunately, we did not manage to conclude a contract that suited both parties, but that has not changed our spirit of cooperation with the national conservation body.

In fact, we have been accused by a number of anti-culling NGOs of being biased in favour of SANParks. At about the time Mabunda was firing off his missives last week, I also received an angry call from Barbara Maas, director of Care for the Wild in London, who accused me of prejudicing her anti-culling campaign.

So, everybody is angry and I guess, as the saying goes, this means we are doing our job as a newspaper. But this job includes raising issues under debate -- and culling elephants is a controversial issue that affects many South Africans.

The nub of our questioning revolves around the process being deployed to get the public, both local and foreign, to agree to culling. SANParks is unequivocal that culling needs to happen in some national reserves, including the Kruger National Park, to preserve biodiversity and protect other species.

But it refuses to give us the specifics. How many elephants does the organisation plan to cull? It makes a difference whether they are planning to kill 10 or 1 000 in a year. To say SANParks is “looking at 7% of the population in those areas where maximum reduction management is needed” is obfuscatory because we don’t know, and aren’t being told, the total number of elephants.

How are they planning to do it? Is Scoline, the drug that paralyses the elephants until shooters on foot can finish them off, still being considered? This is a practical welfare issue that needs to be discussed.

What do they plan to do with the elephant products? It is clear that neighbouring communities stand to benefit, but how? Suggestions range from giving them meat to providing them with ivory to work and sell.

Mabunda was proud of closing down the abattoir in Skukuza, which processed elephant carcasses, when he was director of the Kruger in 1995, long before he became CEO of SANParks. What has made him change his mind?

Is he under pressure to keep Kruger’s neighbours happy? When the M&G reported in February this year that there were land claims on large sections of the Kruger, SANParks accused us of “inaccurate” and “insensitive” reporting. In September, a parliamentary select committee on land and environmental affairs confirmed our story after visiting the Kruger.

Is it about money? The latest SANParks annual report shows that revenue from private tourism concessions has dropped by nearly half and that unit occupancy has dropped from 75% to 65%. Are the issues related?

SANParks won’t answer these questions. Mkutshulwa says they are premature and will only be decided once the principle of culling has been approved. But how can people approve a plan if they don’t know what it means? There may be unresolved debate about the abstract principle of culling, but it should not be debated in the abstract, anyway. We should understand what it means in concrete terms, and decide on that basis.

Minister of Environment and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk will make the final decision on culling. Brian Gibson, his “issue management” adviser, says the process of public consultation is specially designed to avoid specific details. According to Gibson, scraps between SANParks and NGOs like the one covered in our story last week are a sideshow. The main debate, he says, is “where the minister is going with this”. But the minister is just listening; he’s not saying anything at the moment.

Gibson says Van Schalkwyk will decide on whether culling is acceptable in principle, and then the principle will be applied in different ways in different areas. “It’s a logical, consequential process,” he says.

Perhaps. But let’s hope somebody asks the right questions -- and lets us know the answers -- before it is too late.

Hier gings im Endeffekt nie um die Menschenrechte oder Apartheid, es ging und geht wer die Rohstoffe des Lande kontrolliert, wenn ihr mich fragt unsere Politiker sind nur die Muppets von USA/England und der Freimaurer Elite..... meiner Meinung !

ANC 'war' motivated by greed, says Holomisa

Cape Town, South Africa

22 November 2005 06:02

The conflict in the African National Congress is not between a populist camp and a technocratic and aloof elite, according to United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa.

"This is hogwash," Holomisa writes in a discussion document being circulated to party structures ahead of the party's national congress in Mthatha next month.

"The war we are seeing is between two camps, both motivated by greed for power and control over the resources of the country, who will adopt any ideology for as long as they think it is expedient."

Holomisa, himself once a senior ANC member, writes that another "carefully cultivated myth" is that this conflict is a battle between beleaguered ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma and the movement's president, Thabo Mbeki.

In fact, he says, it is nothing of the sort.

Mbeki, he suggests, has cleverly positioned himself as a "lightning rod" for the attention of the other camp...... USA ???

"Whilst they are focusing all their energy on him, and embarrassing themselves in the process, Mbeki is almost certainly waiting for them to exhaust all their energy and options.

"At this point, Mbeki will step smoothly aside, appearing to be a perfect statesman, and the new 'compromise' presidential candidate will appear.

"What Mbeki is currently doing is to draw the fire of his enemies away from his secretly chosen and as yet carefully hidden successor."

Referring to corruption at all levels of the government, Holomisa blames the trouble not on the rotten apple, but on "the lack of leadership and political will to remove that bad apple".

"We must convince voters and opinion-makers that the ANC cannot rule unconditionally for all eternity, that in fact the ANC is no longer fit to rule," he writes. -- Sapa

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Zuma's protection ""costs R1.2m""

2005-11-23

Despite no longer being deputy president for over four months, Jacob Zuma's protection costs amount to R1.2m a year, says the Democratic Alliance. Cape Town - Former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's protection was costing an estimated R100 000 a month - or R1.2m a year, says official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) safety spokesperson Roy Jankielsohn.
He derived the figures from a reply given to him in parliament from Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.

Nqakula said the salary scale of a VIP protection services officer was R109 473 a year at inspector scale, or just under R300 a day. Over time, this amounted to about R528 a day - or a total payment of R827 a day.

Jankielsohn said it could be reasonably concluded that the State had to pay for a minimum of four protection officers, as well as for more members on an ad hoc basis such as when Zuma attends public gatherings "or travels significant distances".

"Therefore the basic cost for his protection would be R102 663 per month, or R1.2 million per year. This is without the additional costs of the provisions of vehicles as well as other forms of static security."

"It is clear that these costs cannot be borne forever and the government needs to give a clear indication as to how long it will provide Mr Zuma with this level of protection. The taxpayer should not have to foot this sizeable bill for an indefinite period."

The minister, meanwhile, said the Protective Security Policy (RIMAS) provided for minimum security packages for various categories of protected persons.

The minister said: "However a comprehensive threat assessment of a protectee may dictate a need for the increase or decrease of the package provided by the South African Police Service. We do not give details of the size of any of the protection units as that could compromise the security of the VIP under protection.

Jankielsohn said: "Despite the fact that former Deputy President Jacob Zuma has now been out of office for over four months, he is still receiving protection at a significant cost to the taxpayer.

"While there is certainly an argument to be made that he should receive such protection, it remains concerning that a precedent has been set that blurs the line between party and state.

"If party officials require additional security then the African National Congress (ANC) and not the State should provide this security."

Jankielsohn said: "By law only former presidents are entitled to full VIP protection. In all other instances, VIP protection is afforded at the discretion of the minister of safety and security, when he deems it necessary.

"There is a clear danger that if the precedent set for Mr Zuma is continued that all manner of senior ANC officials will be afforded protection to which they ordinarily would not be entitled to."

Wenn Kaffer das Land uebernehmen, nach der Schlagzeile, sorry Schlagloch muesste nun der Rand wieder staerker werden :D:

Gatvol = die Schnauze restlos voll haben.

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Passengers, airlines 'gatvol' at huge chaos

2005-11-29

The Airport Company of SA stands accused of shoddy maintenance at Cape Town International as "gatvol" passengers and airlines vent their fury. Johannesburg - The Civil Aviation Authority wants to know why, in spite of six daily inspections, damage to a main runway at Cape Town International Airport was not noticed in good time to prevent the weekend's massive air chaos.
Whatever the cause is of the "hole" in a Cape Town main runway, it will do little to appease the thousands of "tired, hungry and gatvol" passengers waiting at airports across South Africa since Sunday afternoon for flights to or from Cape Town.

The airlines, too, are baying for blood as they struggle to eliminate their huge backlogs of passengers.

It was revealed on Monday that scheduled maintenance was done on the runway as recently as Saturday night, and again early on Monday morning, hours after the runway was reopened to air traffic.

Experts said that the "hole" in the runway surface could have led to an aviation disaster and massive loss of life if a fully loaded 747 passenger jet had landed on it.

While airlines struggled to clear the backlogs after thousands of passengers countrywide were stranded because of airport problems, fingers were increasingly being pointed at the Airports Company of SA (Acsa) and the quality of maintenance in Cape Town.

No damage to 'suspect' plane

Malaysian Airlines also reacted angrily to rumours that its 747-400 caused a 5mx6m piece of asphalt to "lift up" on the runway.

The airline's district manager in Cape Town, Chan Cheong Eu, said that when Air Malaysia's flight landed at Buenos Aires, Argentina, after its flight from Cape Town there was "no damage to the plane".

He said if it were true that the tail of their jet caused the hole in the ground, "today's news would not have been so simple".

"In serious cases (where the tail hits the ground when taking off), the aircraft can break in two and cause total disaster," said Chan.

Asphalt that lifts up, as apparently happened on Sunday, is "dangerous".

An informed aviation source, specialising in cargo aircraft, commented: "The logical deduction is that the incident happened because of a lack of proper, sustained maintenance.

Would have yanked off undercarriage

"If the runway failed when a heavy (Boeing) 747 full of passengers landed on it, the consequences could have been fatal.

"It probably would have yanked off the plane's undercarriage, making it impossible to steer," he said.

Rodney James, marketing manager of budget airline 1time, said on Monday that such a hole "does not suddenly appear" and should have been "spotted during routine maintenance".

Comair's Gidon Novick said it was astonishing that Acsa's managing director Monhla Hlahla had made no comment about Sunday's events.

"We demand a clear explanation. At present, there are only vague stories. We want to know what happened."

CAA incident inspector Gilbert Thwala :Dsaid the CAA wanted to determine why the asphalt lifted.

'Not due to a lack of maintenance'

"The fact that it was not spotted earlier raises questions about maintenance at the airport," he said.

Acsa spokesperson Deidre Hendricks confirmed, meanwhile, that work was "recently" been done on the runway, but that it was "routine maintenance".

Hendricks said the runway was checked six times a day and the "defect was definitely not due to a lack of maintenance".

Acsa apparently are investigating the possibility that, besides environmental factors, the damage might have been the result of a "take-off, landing or jet-engine ignition" and the "stress this caused on the surface".

'Tired, hungry and fed-up'

Passenger Jac Jacobs said his group had to sleep at Johannesburg International on Sunday night.

"We have been stuck here since Sunday afternoon. Our flight was delayed several times without any reason or apology being offered," he said.

"We were promised time and again that we would take off soon, simply to be informed a little later that it was still not possible."

Most airlines hit by 'the hole'

Jacobs, who was waiting for a Nationwide flight to Cape Town along with 82 other people, said no one from Acsa, which runs South Africa's airports, or Nationwide tried to help the stranded passengers.

Nationwide was one of the airlines affected by the delays.

Jacobs said: "They just told us that we were unable to fly and that we should go home.

"That despite there being three small babies in the group. What alternatives were there at that time of the morning?"

'Out of our control'

Nationwide spokesperson Rodger Whittle said his airline couldn't be held responsible for the delayed flights.

"The situation was out of our control and that is why we didn't organise accommodation or food.

"We can't afford to compensate people for something that we didn't cause.

"Some" of our staff worked non-stop for more than 24 hours to keep passengers informed. Often the passengers' expectations are unrealistic."

So im nachhinein, ich habe heute erfahren das man in Simonstown den Marine Stuetzpunkt der Navy frueher 4 Admirale hatte, heute laufen 26 Neger Admirale rum es gibt fast kein Fussvolk das weiss wie man an der Schraube dreht. Wunderbar, das bringt den Rand noch auf 6 Rand zum Euro.
Das beste ist die meisten koennen gar nicht schwimmen und haben Angst vorm Wasser.

Hoffentlich lassen die den Nuklearreaktor der Strom liefert fuer Slaapstadt nicht ueberhitzen der keine 50 km weit weg ist.

Das wird eine der besten Fussball Weltmeisterschaft wenn das so weiter geht.

Eskom can't cope, says expert

An energy expert has warned that the constant power outages in the Western Cape and Gauteng will only get worse. Cape Town - The country's electricity has been exhausted.
An expert warned on Monday that the demand for electricity is far higher than Eskom's capacity to provide it.

Cape engineer Andrew Kenny who specialises in energy told FIN24's sister publication Die Burger that the constant power outages in the Western Cape and Gauteng would only get worse in future.

The country's existing power stations could not cope with the demand for electricity. It was also much too late to solve this problem in the immediate future.

"The country's electrical resources are now being completely overloaded. More power stations are urgently needed. The dilemma, however, is the time needed to build stations like these. It could take up to eight years to build and commission only one power station," said Kenny.

He said the whole electricity debacle was not surprising. The country's economy was growing faster than its capacity to provide electricity.

The electricity supply was supposed to increase by 1.8% if the economy grew by 5%. This was not happening, because there were insufficient power stations such as Koeberg to meet the demand.

Gas turbines were not a long-term solution as they were too costly to run. These turbines, such as those to be built at Atlantis and Mossel Bay, would alleviate the problem in the short term. Turbines such as these generate 500 kW (kilowatts) of power per unit and could bring relief in the morning and evening peaks.

"South Africa now needs baseline power stations which could supply electricity to the country for 24 hours a day," said Kenny.

He added that the problem of power outages would become increasingly worse countrywide.

On Monday, DA spokesperson on mineral and energy affairs Adv Hendrik Schmidt accused Eskom of poor management and under-expenditure on the necessary infrastructure.

People in the Cape who had suffered losses due to power outages could institute claims against Eskom.

Eskom spokesperson Trish da Silva said people and enterprises that had been affected, could institute claims against the power giant or claim from their insurers if they had short-term insurance.

"The respective insurers will in turn claim from Eskom," Da Silva said.

Spokesperson for Koeberg power station Carin de Villiers said the station's emergency plan and alarm system would be tested on Tuesday between 10:00 and 12:00.

The areas affected include Atlantis, Duynefontein, Melkbosstrand, Van Riebeeckstrand, Philadelphia, Bloubergstrand, parts of Table View and the farms around the power station.

@Eldo

Habe vor ein paar Tage ein Probeexemplar von Bandulets G&M bekommen...keine Ahnung warum, habs nicht angefordert, aber seis drum. Nichts desto trotz schätzte ich seine Expertiese schon sehr lang, da er für mich echt ein Kenner der Szene und des Marktes ist. Was er schreibt hat meistens Hand und Fuss.
In diesem Probeexemplar ist eine Studie über Südafrika und die Südafrika Minen drin.
Ich wollte Dir nur sagen, dass B. Deine Eindrücke über das Land und die Minen teilt. Er sieht grosse Probleme in den Kosten, der Währung, der Kriminalität und nicht zuletzt in AIDS.
Einzig GFI hält er noch für haltenswert.....für den Rest gilt für Ihn alles raus was keine Miete zahlt.
Ich werde in letzter Zeit immer mehr bestärkt, dass es bei meinen Harmony langsam an der Zeit ist die Gewinne mitzunehmen.

Gruss

Hallo Valueman

Bin froh das ich nicht der einzige bin der so denkt, es sieht eben allgemein beschissen aus, Apartheid umgedreht, Affirmative Actions, das heisst der Neger bekommt vortritt, egal ob die Qualification stimmt oder nicht, der Weisse und Auslaender wird rausgeekelt auf gut Deutsch gesagt mit solchen Massnahmen wie schon oben beschrieben. Eine neue Art von Kriegsfuehrung ist das.

Neu seit Anfang des Jahres ist das Auslaender sich nicht laenger als 6 Monate im ganzen Jahr hier bleiben duerfen.
Egal wie oft sie hin und her fliegen nach dem 3 monats Visa fuer EU Buerger.
Alle die sich ein Haus fuer die Rente gekauft haben koennen nur max. 6 monate dieses benutzen.
Timeshare, mit einen Neger ???

Durch Bolivar holte ich mir Goldfields wieder ins Programm, nicht viel aber die einzige Mine und Management das mich hier noch ueberzeugt.
Ich habe noch zum spielen ein paar Droppy geholt damit Alex sich freut.
Auf einigen Wuestenexplorern wie er sagt habe ich die selbe summe drauf.

Ich rate Dir lass die HMY sausen, der Swanepoel und Dippenaar alleine reicht mir schon die nie mehr anzufassen.
Was will man schon gross von einem Kaffer erwarten, die hauen alles kaputt und sind reine Verbrauchen die nichts produzieren wollen ausser Kinder.
Es gibt auch keine Zukunft fuer weisse Kinder hier,die Zeiten sind vorbei und die Welt ist damit zufrieden.

Namibia hat nun verboten Geld ins Ausland zu schicken da es die Richtung Zimbabwe geht.
Bei uns dauert es noch ein wenig laenger aber es geht auch in diese Richtung. Schade um das schoene Land.

Es gibt da bessere Werte in der Welt als die Kafferminen.
Der Rand bleibt weiter stark, frage mich nicht warum.

A new look at Department of Education statistics suggests that from 1995 to 2004 a startling 40% of primary school children dropped out of school..
.... das macht ihn vielleicht so stark ?

Gruss

Eldo

South African Reserve Bank Gives Approval for Gold Fields/Bolivar Transaction
Tuesday November 29, 3:41 am ET

@ Eldorado

Es würde mich doch mal interessieren, warum du diese Artikel hier reinstellst, man kann die doch auch bei „Cape Times“ oder „Cape Argus“ nachlesen - falls man sich dafür interessiert.

Was ist dein Motiv ?? Oder füllst du die Seiten nur, um dein Punktekonto zu pushen ??

Man darf nicht vergessen, dass Südafrika ein Entwicklungsland und kein Industrieland ist – mit immerhin 4-6 % Wirtschaftswachstum im Jahr (Deutschland hat mal gerade magere 0,8 %). Für Südafrika ist die Fußball WM eine große Chance – man wird sehen, ob es diese Chance nutzt oder nicht. Aber Schwarzseher und Pessimisten gibt es ja auch in Deutschland genug.

Wie man dort mit dem Stromausfall im Münsterland fertig wird ist ja wohl auch nicht gerade ein Musterbeispiel an Tüchtigkeit und Cleverness.

Nichts für ungut – schreib trotzdem mal warum diese Artikel.

Kuddel

Zitat

Original von Kuddel
@ Eldorado

Es würde mich doch mal interessieren, warum du diese Artikel hier reinstellst, man kann die doch auch bei „Cape Times“ oder „Cape Argus“ nachlesen - falls man sich dafür interessiert.

Was ist dein Motiv ?? Oder füllst du die Seiten nur, um dein Punktekonto zu pushen ??

Man darf nicht vergessen, dass Südafrika ein Entwicklungsland und kein Industrieland ist – mit immerhin 4-6 % Wirtschaftswachstum im Jahr (Deutschland hat mal gerade magere 0,8 %). Für Südafrika ist die Fußball WM eine große Chance – man wird sehen, ob es diese Chance nutzt oder nicht. Aber Schwarzseher und Pessimisten gibt es ja auch in Deutschland genug.

Kuddel

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Kuddel,

Erstens kenne ich mich besser aus seit 20 Jahren in RSA als du.

Ich moechte Euch nur informieren was hier sonst noch los ist vielleicht versteht ihr das Land und Leute besser, das ist alles.
Wer Land und Leute kennt kann sich vorstellen was bei den Minen ablaeuft.
Im Dies und Das schreiben viele was in D los ist, sicher es geht hier um Rand und Minengesellschaften aber ich habe keinen Bock deshalb einen eigenen thread aufzumachen. Wen es stoert der soll nicht hinschauen oder er scrolled mit seiner Maus bis etwas kommt was einen interessiert.

Wer schreibt den hier sonst noch, bis auf ein paar Leute denen es nicht stoert. Ich erpare Euch vielleicht dadurch einigen Aerger, egal ob bei Minen oder bei einen Besuch. Bei Euch wird in den Medien das Land verherrlicht und dargestellt als waere es das reinste Paradise.
Darum finde ich es gut auch mal die andere Seite zu lesen,Euer Urteil und Meinung koennt ihr selber machen. Ich druecke da keinen etwas auf.

Es geht mir nicht um Punktesammeln oder Titel das kannst du mir glauben. Ich finde es laecherlich so etwas zu behaupten.
Wer von den Usern schaut schon auf die Webseiten von Argus und Cape Times, ich schau drauf und lege Artikel rein die Suedafrika betreffen, selbst wenn kein Strom und Wasser da ist.

Minen die keinen Strom und Wasser haben koennen nicht produzieren oder ???

Manche Menschen sind missguenstig und schaetzen gar nichts, ich weiss nicht ob du dazu gehoerst.

Sorry, die einzigen Postings die Du hier machst sind laecherliche Beschwerden.

Dafuer bekommst du dann Punkte:
Erfahrungspunkte: 60.556 Kuddel

Erfahrungspunkte: 821.058 Eldorado
Erfahrungspunkte: 347.028 Aladin

Die Bewertungen kommen von den anderen Mitgliedern und darauf habe ich keinen Einfluss, es hat somit nichts mit der Anzahl der Postings zu tun.

Ich habe viel gemacht in diesen guten Forum und lese gerne jede berechtigte kritik aber was du immer zu meckern hast kann ich nicht akzeptieren.
In der Zukunft werde ich dich nun ignorieren und nehme hiermit zum letzen mal Stellung.

Machs doch besser als ich, wir sind gespannt was du liefern kannst.

Mfg

Eldo