Load Shedding Schedules - Find out when yours will be off

Post by **ryanrich** » 28 Jan 2008, 12:37

Moses wrote:I'm so glad I live opposite a hospital, I haven't had a power cut for weeks. And next month I'm leaving SA, yay!

Me too, in fact I'm leaving next Wednesday, yay!

SoulBlade · Post by **SoulBlade** » 28 Jan 2008, 13:13

South Africa’s power crisis poses no threat to its hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said today...

Source

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 28 Jan 2008, 13:25

Yeah sure.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » 28 Jan 2008, 13:34

Interesting that they now try and say that it will not affect 2010, when a government department said we should consider scrapping 2010.

Yes, Eskom can gaurantee all stadiums have power, but who would come a land, watch a soccer game and then go to their hotels knowing there is no warm water, electricity there?

And, if we are NOW running over supply, what will happen in 3 years? How many more stations will fail by then?

RSA should scrap 2010 now whilst we still have the time to save a bit of face, maybe even give another country enough time to run 2010 effectively...

SoulBlade · Post by **SoulBlade** » 28 Jan 2008, 14:14

RSA should scrap 2010 now whilst we still have the time to save a bit of face, maybe even give another country enough time to run 2010 effectively...

So far the monkeys of this country has done nothing but plain stupid mistakes.

PsyCLown · Post by **PsyCLown** » 28 Jan 2008, 15:16

Do any of you maybe have a link as to where I can stream that part on Eskom which was on Carte Blanche on the 28th of Jan?

I missed it

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 28 Jan 2008, 15:24

I also find it funny how most load-shedding times fall on news hours.

06:00 - 08:30 : Missed the morning news
10:00 - 12:30 : Missed the morning news
12:00 - 14:30 : Missed the afternoon news
14:00 - 16:30 : Missed the afternoon news
16:00 - 18:30 : Missed the evening news
18:00 - 20:30 : Missed the evening news
20:00 - 22:30 : Missed the late edition
22:00 - 00:30 : Missed the late edition

Seems their really keeping us in the dark.

muffinman · Post by **muffinman** » 28 Jan 2008, 15:29

PsyCLown wrote:Do any of you maybe have a link as to where I can stream that part on Eskom which was on Carte Blanche on the 28th of Jan?

I missed it

don't know about streaming, but here's the article
http://www.mnet.co.za/Mnet/Shows/carteb ... sp?Id=3444

Jonboy · Post by **Jonboy** » 28 Jan 2008, 15:47

The funniest was a ways back when city power shed the load on themselves *doh*. It's really crazy, is says in that article how a lion-king performance was cut. Can you imagine something like the Celine Dion concert at Loftus and the lights go out with all those people having paid close (and more than) R1000 a ticket!? The scary thing is that in 2010 the stadiums will run completely off generators, but what will the rest of us do in the darkness???

And now, thieves are going onto Eskoms site, checking out the schedules and hanging around in Spars, PC shops etc, then the lights go off and they walk out with the goods.

But ja, let's all vote Zuma then...

'nuff said!

Interfan · Post by **Interfan** » 28 Jan 2008, 16:08

Moses wrote:I'm so glad I live opposite a hospital, I haven't had a power cut for weeks. And next month I'm leaving SA, yay!

You just got lucky. Is it an Public or private hospital?? They have been cutting the power at the private hospitals here in PTA causing major issues for my Dad and his firm since they can only finish operations on generator power. They aren't allowed to start any operations on generator power except for emergency operations.

This is really a sad state of affairs and has been the final nail in the coffin to convince me it ain't worth it to stay here. I have started looking into the UK highly skilled migrant program. Still 20 points short of qualifying but that's my plan now.

On world cup 2010 Fifa said they are monitoring the situation which in Fifa speaks means we are ****** ourselves with worry and have asked strategic countries to be ready in case of disaster.

Post by **Kronos** » 28 Jan 2008, 17:05

Slasher wrote:RSA should scrap 2010 now whilst we still have the time to save a bit of face, maybe even give another country enough time to run 2010 effectively...

No, we should have it here, and show the rest of the world what a circus this country is turning into. Hopefully I'll be long gone by then.
I can just hope that the rest of the world will see the failure, and count it for what it is, and not 16 years after the first "Democratic" elections, still revert to blaming Apartheid for the failure.

Post by **Ron2K** » 28 Jan 2008, 18:20

Interfan wrote:I have started looking into the UK highly skilled migrant program. Still 20 points short of qualifying but that's my plan now.

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I'm five points short on the Aussie equivalent - however, it's going to take three more years of work experience for those five points.

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Mauritzvw1 · Post by **Mauritzvw1** » 28 Jan 2008, 18:39

I am busy with my Permanent Residency Visa for OZ at the moment

They want me to come tommorrow but my wife only wants to leave next year

jee · Post by **jee** » 28 Jan 2008, 21:11

Oh! Ye of little faith! Escum is on the ball, and there is light at the end of the tunnel!

*no, not the train!*

the following e-mail was received, bringing hope:

Dear Residents

A Backup Module for unit 2 has arrived at Koeberg.

We are pleased to announce that all our power cuts will soon be a thing of
the past.

Kindly refer to the attached documents for more detail.

Regards

ESKOM

Attachment :

matrixkid · Post by **matrixkid** » 29 Jan 2008, 08:39

Anyone know where i can get the load shedding schedule????

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 29 Jan 2008, 08:46

http://www.eskom.co.za/live/loadshed.php

Just enter your town/suburb in the box in the middel of the page.

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 29 Jan 2008, 09:45

Thats quite funny. My hood's been listed there for a long time but i have yet to face a single power cut.

Acidkidsa · Post by **Acidkidsa** » 29 Jan 2008, 12:45

I wonder if RSA will ever get electric cars now??!!

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 29 Jan 2008, 12:47

It will be a cold day in hell.

Hex_Rated · Post by **Hex_Rated** » 29 Jan 2008, 12:54

This country is going to end up like the rest of Africa with poverty, hunger and disease rife... And they'll blame it all on Apartheid. I had such high expectations, the economy started booming but than recently with Zuma and the start of the power cuts, everything fell apart. The only hope this country has left is if all the Zuma supporters die of AIDS, and that is a really terrible thing to say but it's true.

I'm moving to Australia, but I won't be gone by 2010. I'm going to laugh at what happens.

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 29 Jan 2008, 12:57

So.... good 'ol SA took a 9.3 billion knock since last week Friday yet Eskom keeps home-users running and cut heavy commercial users -

Load curtailment in progress with selected minimng & industrial customers

Lol the tossers can't even spell mining. Exactly why things are happening the way they do.

SoulBlade · Post by **SoulBlade** » 29 Jan 2008, 13:05

I hope the next SimCity has these conditions/outages as part of it's 'realism' factor

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 29 Jan 2008, 13:11

Acidkidsa · Post by **Acidkidsa** » 29 Jan 2008, 14:52

I hear from so many people that are planning on moving..

Sad. I will stick it out and hope for the best. But if it it really starts getting stupid bad. I am afraid the company will have to relocate.

No point raving about what a beautifull country we have if we can even put dinner on out plate.

eXtreMe99 · Post by **eXtreMe99** » 29 Jan 2008, 15:07

nice idea SoulBlade

hehe