
Jasper Malan
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Load shedding has been happening daily since 2002. If anyone thinks that load shedding is gone because the public is not being load shed you are mistaken. Eskom has agreements with large industry to load shed them first as they paid a cheaper rate for electricity. So when you are not seeing load shedding at home do not think that the problem is gone. You were hoodwinked in your own mind due to lack of knowledge. Many people think that load shedding is fake. Just a few facts. 1. Load shedding is done as a technical requirement to maintain the national grid as close to 50Hz as possible. 2. Politicians do not and cannot enable or control Load Shedding. 3. Load shedding requirements are controlled from Eskom's National Control center at Simmerpan. I have spoken to them many times during my time as a licensed reactor operator and monitored their logs. 4. Regional control centres can control regional load shedding to enable grid stability. We have one in the Eskom building in Bellville. 5. If load shedding is needed and not done the grid frequency can drop to 47.5Hz. This is the frequency where every single generator in the Eskom grid will disconnect from the grid to protect itself and cause a nationwide blackout. 6. There is no person that understands the grid and power generation that will not support the implementation of load shedding when needed. You have to do it. 7. It is a disgrace that a country such as South Africa that has Eskom as an asset has squandered the value and praise that Eskom received internationally. 8. It is a disgrace that South Africa has not continued the good name and good practices like the best training for staff that Eskom used to provide. I hope that the people of South Africa realize that it is the current political and electoral system that is to blame. It has allowed the politicians in office that would make this happen. In a direct election system where candidates have to debate it out and the public needs to choose it could be very different. This is a system where parties have no power and we the citizens elect our president directly, our MP's directly in their constituencies etc. In the coming 2024 elections you will for the first time be able to choose a system change option. One of the parties that will be on the ballot nationwide advocate only for this change. Do your research and do not choose the same system again by voting for a party that wants the status quo to remain. All 14 in parliament now wants the system remain as is because none of them are advocating for system change. I hope they start. We have 14 parties in parliament that depend on this failed system to keep their bums on seats because none of them had to fight for that seat under public scrutiny. Let us turn up the temperature and make them see that the show is getting to the end. Let us change the governance and electoral system. #LiberateSA @EskomSePush @Loadshedding_SA @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA @Kgosientsho_R
















