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Edit : This is not true! Niehaus won't be able to get his head from Zuma's backside to able to pull this off.
 
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Eskom’s Kusile power station is now half-finished – 13 years after construction started
Hanno Labuschagne31 March 2021


Eskom has announced that another unit at its coal-powered Kusile Power Station in Mpumalanaga has achieved commercial operation status, bringing the completion of the power plant to its halfway mark.

Commercial operation means that the unit has now met the requirements for full technical, statutory, safety, and legal compliance.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/ener...shed-13-years-after-construction-started.html
 
Kopdoek at her best !
''In a media briefing on Thursday (1 April), the minister said that police officer will establish roadblocks throughout the country to enforce the regulations.''

This poor officer is going to be extremely tired by next Tuesday...

“Over the weekend they are not allowed to carry alcohol from one place to the other. Today yes, but as from midnight today (1 April) until midnight on Monday (5 April) they are not allowed.''

Do not carry it , you may however put it in your boot or backseat of the car ?

UPDATE
Dlamini-Zuma insisted at the briefing transporting of alcohol was not allowed as part of a Easter weekend prohibition on off-site alcohol sales — but lawyers were quick to point out that this was not what the gazetted regulations stated.
 
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Pay up, Eskom
Staff Writer7 April 2021


Eskom should pay the pending dues for the software that they use, Oracle South Africa said amidst a payment spat between the two companies.

The Johannesburg High Court last week dismissed Eskom’s application to prevent Oracle from withdrawing its services over a payment dispute.

Eskom has a contractual agreement with Oracle to provide products, services, and technical support until 31 March 2022.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/392425-pay-up-eskom.html
 
TAX ON PETROL 07/04 - FYI

A breakdown of the taxes (for 95 Petrol), according to the department is as follows:
  • Fuel levy: 393 cents per litre
  • Road Accident Fund levy: 218 cents per litre
  • Customs and excise: 4 cents per litre
  • Demand-side management levy: 10 cents per litre
  • Other levies: 1 cent per litre
Together these costs mean that around R6.26 per litre will go to some form of tax or levy when buying petrol from Today – around 36% of the retail price.
 
Eskom fuel supplier paid ANC to score R15-billion deal
Bloomberg8 April 2021


An oil blending and storage company secured deals to supply South Africa’s state power utility with fuel oil worth more than R15 billion ($1 billion) at inflated prices by paying inducements, including donations to the ruling party, a forensic investigation has found.

Econ Oil & Energy Ltd. allegedly won the contracts with the help of Thandi Marah, then senior manager of business enablement at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., who interfered in the tender processes, said legal firm Bowmans, which Eskom commissioned to conduct the probe.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gove...5-billion-contract.html?utm_source=newsletter
 
ARYANTO said:
Eskom fuel supplier paid ANC to score R15-billion deal
Bloomberg8 April 2021


An oil blending and storage company secured deals to supply South Africa’s state power utility with fuel oil worth more than R15 billion ($1 billion) at inflated prices by paying inducements, including donations to the ruling party, a forensic investigation has found.

Econ Oil & Energy Ltd. allegedly won the contracts with the help of Thandi Marah, then senior manager of business enablement at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., who interfered in the tender processes, said legal firm Bowmans, which Eskom commissioned to conduct the probe.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gove...5-billion-contract.html?utm_source=newsletter
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Not surprised in the least :ANOYED:
 
Plan to introduce new bank cards in South Africa could lead to trouble: think tank
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has warned against the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) proposal to introduce domestic cards.

In a consultation paper published on 2 March, the central bank said that it was conducting an assessment that will look at creating ‘white-label’ banking cards that can only be used in South Africa or neighbouring countries.
https://businesstech.co.za/news/ban...-to-trouble-think-tank/?utm_source=newsletter
 
White appointments at Eskom based on performance and delivery – De Ruyter

Staff Writer12 April 2021


Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has denied wrongdoing in the appointments of a number of senior employees at the power utility over the course of 2020.

This comes after suspended chief procurement officer Solly Tshitangano claimed De Ruyter was racist by giving preference to white-owned companies in the awarding of supplier contracts and subverting protocols to appoint white persons in key positions at the company.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/ener...delivery-de-ruyter.html?utm_source=newsletter
 
South African airline war – Flights from R499 and dogs allowed to sit with owners
South African airlines are doing everything they can to attract customers, like slashing prices and allowing passengers to take their dogs on a flight with them.

The airline industry took a tremendous knock in 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel bans.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/moto...r499-and-dogs-allowed-to-sit-with-owners.html
 
Third of senior government employees in South Africa are not qualified – here are the worst departments
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gove...qualified-here-are-the-worst-departments.html
Senior managers in South African government require at least an NQF Level 7 qualification, which is equal to a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma.

According to information captured in government’s Personal and Salary System (PERSAL) as of 15 February 2021, however, there were no records of such qualifications for 3,301 of the 9,477 senior managers in the public service.

Scary - Health: 56
No wonder S.A. is broke -National Treasury: 64
N/c - Police: 228
The Waiting Dept -Home Affairs: 56
 
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Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas, otherwise known as COPE, associated with the number one newspaper in Madrid, is carrying a story about vaping. In it, a professor of chemistry says that driving down any street in Madrid exposes a person to more toxins than vaping an e-cigarette.
The article(1) repeats the fact that vaping is vastly safer than smoking, stating that experts say vaping is at least 90% safer than smoking. It goes on to quote Professor Angel González Ureña, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and director of the Department of Lasers and Molecular Beams of the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Complutense University, stating the streets of Madrid carry far greater danger than an electronic cigarette.

González Ureña explained that in several experiments, it the relative risk posed to drivers was "absolutely clear".

"We have conducted some experiments here in Madrid, analysing the gases on a normal street, because of traffic, and compared to e-cigarettes and I can tell them that for many chemists if you walk down any street you are exposed to more toxic than if you inhale an e-cigarette. That's for sure," he told COPE.

The piece goes on to cite Peter Harper, who is responsible for oncology at Guy's, King's and St Thomas hospitals in London and now provides advice to the French government on its strategy to combat cancer and tobacco related disease. He told COPE that city pollution causes more problems than the inhalation of ecig vapour.
 
ARYANTO said:
Third of senior government employees in South Africa are not qualified – here are the worst departments
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gove...qualified-here-are-the-worst-departments.html
Senior managers in South African government require at least an NQF Level 7 qualification, which is equal to a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma.

According to information captured in government’s Personal and Salary System (PERSAL) as of 15 February 2021, however, there were no records of such qualifications for 3,301 of the 9,477 senior managers in the public service.

Scary - Health: 56
No wonder S.A. is broke -National Treasury: 64
N/c - Police: 228
The Waiting Dept -Home Affairs: 56
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Way back when, the Post Office (to name but one organisation) required a Std 6 for entry level workers and the sky was the limit. A huge number of senior staff members had no qualifications to speak of - but they did have an intimate knowledge of every single aspect of the organisational structure and operations. Clearly they had a fair amount of talent as well...

This was pretty common across the private sector as well, sometimes in industries and professions that might come as a surprise. However, every one of these businesses had firmly entrenched training and ongoing education and strict merit-based promotional systems (or you went to the right school).
 
DavyH said:
Way back when, the Post Office (to name but one organisation) required a Std 6 for entry level workers and the sky was the limit. A huge number of senior staff members had no qualifications to speak of - but they did have an intimate knowledge of every single aspect of the organisational structure and operations. Clearly they had a fair amount of talent as well...

This was pretty common across the private sector as well, sometimes in industries and professions that might come as a surprise. However, every one of these businesses had firmly entrenched training and ongoing education and strict merit-based promotional systems (or you went to the right school).
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My Mom worked at the P O for 48 years and knew everything P O related - she even went to help out when they got stuck after her retirement , Things were working , even if they had to do most things by hand ,calculator ,pen and paper were their tools of the trade.
 
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