Mal 🇿🇦🏳️🌈🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇸🇪@pee There are terrible problems still, yes. I might write separately about what I think of as creeping privatisation. #BasicServices are provided extortionately, to a point that some services are held hostage against public demand. These are #SouthAfrica 's day-to-day nightmares.
But this weekend I had three two-hour power cuts, and expected another one on Sunday afternoon, which didn't happen. All of the cuts were announced on #EskomSePush and happened as scheduled except where it didn't happen, and the ESP database was later updated to show that too. Also I think we knew why the cuts were happening, because of 'maintenance'; and even if I didn't bother to find out the messy details, I felt that perhaps I could find out.
This is a huge improvement on the rolling blackouts of the previous twelve years. 2012 until 2024! Kids were born and finished primary school in that time.
I think it's important to acknowledge #Eskom meeting even a minimum requirement. The fact that they did enough planning to make this my experience of the weekend implies they are making a whole lot of invisible improvements. Which is good, and how it should be.
Danie
Danie van der Merwe
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