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Category Archives: ESKOM
Pretoria is Going Back to King Coal
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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’
… Read the restSouth 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?
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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”
Nuclear Power an overview
Dave Nichols, Chairperson of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
Source: Hugo Kruger
Nuclear Power an overview
The following Presentation was given to the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)’s French Chapter by Dave Nicholls, the Chairperson of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA).
Description: David Nicholls … Read the rest
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.
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