Load reduction is not a technical adjustment. It is a political statement about whose lives matter.
Load reduction is load shedding for the poor
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Privatisation of electricity
NEOLIBERALISM, CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE: STATE OF DYSFUNCTION
Here in South Africa we see a state which fails to function at the most basic level. It fails to provide water, electricity, functioning sewage systems – the most fundamental utilities.
ORGANISE TO AVOID COLLAPSE!
THE GANG RAPE OF EIGHT WOMEN in Kagiso is an outrage. It is even more of an outrage when you consider this is not an isolated incident. So many women are raped, and gang raped in South Africa. It is estimated that a woman is raped every 26 seconds. Adding insult to...
Privatisation of distribution
AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THE privatisation of electricity sales in South Africa is about to be taken. The process the government has embarked on is in effect a privatisation of sales, as in any privatisation of public property. Private investments have to produce a steady...
SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.
CONNECT THE DOTS
Who are the murder and rape victims in South Africa? What are gangs, if not enclaves of violence responding to exclusion from the world of work and income?