Category Archives: ESKOM

Energy Sound Bites on Fossil Fuels

re posted from                             ALEX EPSTEIN SUBSTACK

Energy Sound Bites on Fossil Fuels, Part 1

Easy-to-remember arguments for using more fossil fuels

  • Most “experts” look at the negatives of fossil fuels but ignore huge positives.
  • Many “experts” ignore that much of the world would starve without fertilizer from natural gas.
  • Many
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African Leaders Speak Out for Physical Economic Growth at World Bank Forum

re posted from                          AFRICA AND THE WORLD

Under the cover of their duplicitous concern for the environment, the West is willing to have millions of Africans die with their deceitful cries to “save the planet.

African Leaders Speak Out for Physical Economic Growth at World Bank Forum

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Is Floyd Shivambu Promising the End of Neo-Liberalism for South Africa?

this interview is shocking, in the very best of ways! A polititian proposing SOUND ECONOMIC POLICY. Rebuild the PHYSICAL ECONOMY of South Africa, destroy mediocrity, burn coal, build nuclear, protected industries, MANUFACTURE EVERYTHING SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS, turn fighter jet technology into tractors and cars, ETC. It is what Thomas  SankaraRead the rest

The Development of Innovative Nuclear Solutions to Bolster Agriculture across South Africa

South African internationally renowned nuclear physicist, Dr Kelvin Kemm, Chairman of Stratek Global, explains what the latest in nuclear technology, the Small Modular Reactor, can do for bridging the South African energy deficit and how this new application can power industrialization and modernize agriculture across the continent of Africa which … Read the rest

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

re posted from                         MYBROADBAND

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

re posted from                            EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

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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