Category Archives: ESKOM

South Africa: The most destructive policy in modern SAs history? The 1998 white paper on “privatisation”

re posted from                              HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

The most destructive policy in modern SAs history?

The 1998 white paper on “privatisation”

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Pretoria is Going Back to King Coal

re posted from                             HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

I find it deeply concerning that our banks are employing ‘climate finance’ to hinder the revival of these power plants. There’s no way around it – this agenda is both racist and colonial, particularly if one considers that roughly two-thirds of South Africa’
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South Africa launches programme to build new nuclear power plants

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South Africa launches programme to build new nuclear power plants

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has issued a determination in the Government Gazette that will see South Africa procure 2,500MW of nuclear power.

According to the document, this capacity will be built … Read the rest

Engineering Dissent: Unbundling – Are the Oligarchs Coming for Eskom?

re posted from                                 HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

Are these policies, such as the handsome loans for new transmission lines that will span 60% of the distance around the earth, paving the way forward for the oligarchs to buy Eskom for scrap, as the very institution that once worked efficiently when … Read the rest

Anglo-American Financial Circles are Asset Stripping South Africa

Excerpts from interview with Hugo Kruger

“There is a reality that Eskom is under-performing, that is correct….

Government have not maintained the coal fleet for a very long time and now it seems to be that they are privatizing Eskom, this is privatization, they just say it isn’t,  but it … Read the rest

COP 28 Will Not Stop Africa: The World’s Next Economic Miracle

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This article appears in the December 22, 2023 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

COP 28 Will Not Stop Africa:
The World’s Next Economic Miracle

Dec. 6—Africa will not accept the Malthusian demands of the billionaires who jet to United Nations “climate”

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Kelvin Kemm: DA’s Mileham spewed political propaganda – nuclear power is cheaper, safer, faster

Source: BizNewsTv

DA’s Mileham spewed political propaganda – nuclear power is cheaper, safer, faster.

18 Dec 2023

Nuclear physicist Dr Kelvin Kemm was so incensed with DA shadow minister Kevin Mileham’s “political propaganda” on BizNews TV last week, he insisted on setting the record straight. This the globally respected engineer Read the rest

SOUTH AFRICAN COAL, CLIMATE CHANGE & R1,5 TRILLION DODGY WESTERN LOANS

Source: Zimasa “mooshtaffa” Vabaza

The story of Coal in SA is the story of Africa’s most industrialized economy fighting for its competitive industrial advantage in a world that is saying we should stop using our most important resource because they spent the last 100 years building their economies while messing Read the rest

Opposition to the Unbundling of Eskom: Submission to Parliament South Africa, ELECTRICITY REGULATION AMENDMENT BILL (B23-2023)

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I oppose the current move by the South African Government precisely because I have studied the history of unbundling in the developing world, the success stories, and the failures.

For instance, the World Bank’s comprehensive assessment titled: Rethinking Power Sector Reform in the Read the rest