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MOZAMBIQUE POWER SITUATION

They are powered from the hydro power facility at the Kariba Dam. The national electricity provider is ... I dunno. Doesn't matter. But I know the Kariba Dam is where the electricity is generated. Just curious, did the Orange River Dutch Fuckinny not hear the local Tsn Yami Yam tale. Or did it just not sink in until everyone watched in horror as the Neolithic Kodak Creature did a seal or dolphin trick, except he eats the cow, hanging from a hook on a frame, inbetween the waterfall and the 'mainland', having dangled the just-give-me-a-little-more-time treat, hoping for some slack. Feed me, Seymour.

Needless, to say, the river God and Goddess have been reunited, the dam burst and the Kodak, having washed up in the sea - much to the relief and delight of the Zim Prez.

After having visited Mozambique myself, I discovered that every single lodge, hotel and guesthouse well as hospitality venues such as bars and restaurants, all had air-cons that were in disrepair and a variety of aircons installed at different places that had been broken for a number of years.

Just off the subject

Made with only 2l plastic Coke bottles, 2 wooden boards and a bit of paint, it can lower a room temp by 5°c. It works as the result of the physics behind it. I'm just not sure if the wider or narrower end goes on the outside.

#justsaying #NettZeroCarbon

This tells me there is a major degradation of the electricity generating and service providing, happening to the country, as the result of electricity being outsourced. Electricity and all electrical devices/appliances/machinery and civic and business infrastructure are all currently unmanned. When the Portuguese left after the 48/48 consignment - poor, uneducated and grieving Africans, from the losses of a civil war and the brunt of fighting colonizers for freedom, left little time and opportunities for untrained and unskilled Mozambiquan people; who had not been permitted to learn any skills or to qualify in anything and had only been used by the Portuguese as manual labourers.

The Portuguese left and Mozambiquan people were on their own, so to speak. Too sleg to even impart the skills necessary to fix an air-conditioner? God. I hate whites. Until you ALL face the mess you made of Africa and African people's lives, you will never prosper.

This sad, megalomaniacal need to control everything by withholding necessary and life-saving skills from the indigenous people of Moshaambeekeh is despicable. After the weary years of poor survival; seen in the state of the people's personal effects or lack thereof, their general knowledge or experience of anything money and the broken 1-orphan families trying to survive in this dystopia is only bearable when I see the beautiful but weary, weary faces of people, who themselves have suffered at the hands of non-Africans, who jovially come and fetch me for our next capoeira roda, greeting, hugging and laughing at my poor Portuguese and my poor capoeira and sharing what may be their last with me. A more innocent, gentle people who love one another because that is all that they have left to share, after a pack of anti-biotics or prophylactics is haggled out of a "merchant" - those are the dealers and the medication, like illicit drugs; expired and exhorbatant - is handed out to everyone upon receipt: only 1 pill per person. Like naughty people doing something unpermitted, they take their 1 anti-biotic capsule or pill and feel that sense of a lucky occurrence on a lucky day.

All this residue poverty and suffering is as a direct result of colonizers, who wussed-and-goed without a backward glance, thought or money transfer. Whilst the financial and moral responsibility does lie with the colonizer nations and individuals - it's fair to assume we are not going to be getting any help from them. Or reparation and restitution funds.

No. They prefer to wait until 3rd world Africa get up and just refuse to sell food to anyone who didn't make a concerted effort in the next 20 years to support Africa the way Africa has supported the Whole World for as long as anyone can remember.

This gap in knowledge of how to fix aircons or how to install a toilet or how to run a business or be audited or be the boss - without having to feel intimidated or at a loss or standing, with your emaciated, starving little legs and curly hair, wringing your wrists readying yourself for the next trouble you might be in, for God knows what and having to try to smile politely and say the right things. Like a 3rd World African country's ambassador to a 1st World diplomat or head of something; hoping to sway his 1st world feel-ok-about-Africa 3rd world budget, in your country's direction.

All this, whilst knowing so-and-so (country) is a better investment option than us, they are not a junk status country or a country that is defunkt: with no flag, no anthem, no government or ruling party.

Just a President, who is an unrecognized and broken man, sitting, for one more generation, in a refugee camp; sneered at and harassed occassionally by the younger men, who don't recognize him.

This is dangerous. Leaving people who have survived hell, who do the very best that they can with FUCKALL, their spirits forwarding long after their weary, starved bodies have given up. I know a pinch of that feeling: can I just die now? please?

We, the world cannot just stand by and watch it like a movie; all these efforts Africa makes and then flops or GETS DONE IN AGAIN because Africa is maybe not as World Wise as the rest or maybe we put all of our eggs in international baskets and forget we have brothers and sisters, just here, other side of the border. We needed people we can trust and who we can cohese with and who we know. Money will come. When there is no sikhosa and plenty of Money, that money will feel like toilet paper or the equivalent. With your country(Africa)men, you know, everything has to work because if it doesn't my heart will shatter if I have to bear witness to even more suffering or even worse, another disappointment. And so will yours. And when we have that in common, it works. Can't we all agree to end it? The suffering, I mean. Is there not enough, as the breadbasket of the world, to go around? And for Africa to be paid market competitive prices and not the lowest price you can scrounge out of us?

By following Shanduka (Black Incubatorship and Mentorship Umbrella Foundation - now renamed the Cyril Rhamaphosa Foundation) principles and hosting an 'exchange worker' programme that will boost Mozambique's economy, we can train, accredit, finance and gear up individuals to start businesses that side, after an acceptable level of workmanship has been achieved, through workshops, online and mentor learning experiences.

Also.

We have many Zimbabwe nationals, in SA and all over Africa; who are well-qualified in business and vocational career paths and would make ideal Vocational and Business Mentors. Mozambique is in dire need of some Big Brother take-you-under-my-wing type assistance. As soon as we start putting our back into hand-upping someone in even more kak than we are in, it tends to wipe everyone's tears and soothe everyone's heartache. And it gets things done.

#Power #Kariba #TsnYamiYam #Kodak Creature #Smoke that thunders

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There is an internationally decided upon goal called Nett Zero Carbon. That means that by 2050, a few countries have agreed to and signed agreements that state that by the year 2050, the country would have reduced carbon emissions by putting measures in place like using #CleanGreen power sources, like solar panels, power generated from wind turbines or hydro-electricity. But feasibly even using electricity and the carbon by-products of making electricity add to the carbon emissions of a country. Even our #CleanGreen power sources, we need to mine materials, manufacture them and produce devices that are not Nett Zero. So, Nett Zero Carbon dictates that when carbon emissions can't be helped, we plant trees to offset those carbon emissions.

U.K., Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Germany and a few other European countries have signed. I am hoping to start a concern which will change the power source portfolio of African countries. We will sign. And we will meet our targets but as usual, we have been doing things irregularly in an in African way. African Sovereigns and chieftains and Struggle royalty needed to FIRST be consulted, a presentation delivered to them and for them to have opportunities for q&a, input and to be able to draw a line in the sand. And we have to comply. A King appointed Sangoma or if he doesn't believe in the Sangoma thing, a Priest, Pastor or Imam will bless us, the journey and Our Mandate.

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Chapter One

A TZzzzzttt of Class

Eskom remains South Africa's sole electricity provider; which under the Competition Act of 20... is unlawful. However, no competitors have ever challenged the status quo. Until now.

So, how Eskom-provided electricity works is as follows:

♧ There is a large nuclear or other power station or power plant, within a large city's inner sanctum. This power station sometimes services multiple cities and towns, even a whole province.

♧ From this central power station, power is transported via thick, copper cable lines all the way to a town's sub-station (which is often unmanned and is not the power plants of the cities).

♧ Another sub-station can be found in a central location within residential areas or 'the suburbs'.

♧ The last sub-station between the power plant and the home or business in which it is made use of, is the street power box; which is usually found on a corner and has no fenced off boundaries. From this box, the electricity is sent to the home or business' electricity power box. This, in the circuitry of Eskom-provided electricity, would be a switch or circuit-breaker; albeit, only when it is switched off. However, because these parts of the circuit, up to the power station have no switches, unlimited power can be siphoned off the grid.

Single Phase Power - This is electricity meant for home use. Eskom supplies home consumers with single phase electricity. Small firms (with 5 office  employees in total) and even massive skyscraper-housed firms (with 2300 office employees) would both be using single phase power. This means that the surge of power in wattage is limited and can also be identified by a certain thickness of copper cabling needed to carry or conduct or "move" a constant stream of electricity.

Three Phase Power - This is the kind of electricity consumer you would be, if you had a wood workshop, for example, in which you used multiple power tools as well as the usual office and kitchen equipment. Often, when one wants to open a business; either at home or at a bought or leased premises, one would have to enquire whether the zoning of that erf is residential or three phase. If residential, one would have to first put an ad in the local newspaper announcing your intention to make an application to change the zoning. You would have to host a meeting at a venue at which any stakeholders could come and voice their agreement or concerns with your proposed application. Unfortunately, if you have even just one person in disagreement, you will not be permitted to continue the application; which is lodged at your nearest Civic Centre.

The reason for this; perhaps not obvious at the time; is that three phase power costs about 6 times more per unit than residential or one phase electricity; and even if the rest of your street does not need three phase power, they end up paying for it. This is because the power box on your corner, that services the whole street needs to be upgraded to three phase. Probably, for that reason, you have to hand deliver notices of your intention to lodge an application; as well as a notice and details of your meeting, regarding the proposed re-zoning of that street; at every house number in that street.

Once the zoning is three phase, it is difficult to get it re-zoned back to residential; if not impossible; probably due to the infrastructure and street box upgrade because three phase power requires thicker copper cables; all the way to your power box. And all the way back to Eskom or your local Power Plant.

The benefit to installing three phase power is that electricity doesn't trip and heavy machinery and devices can be used; with abandon; and without a weak electrical power source that is not equipped to handle such a high rate of power consumerage.

Quite often, people living in the suburbs, never check the municipal zoning of their street and as a result, end up buying/renting a house that is zoned under a three phase electricity supply or semi-industrial zoning. This can significantly lower your home, the street and the suburb's real estate value. Non-consumers of three phase have been known to be crippled, financially, by the rate charged for the unnecessary cost of an oversupply of Eskom's three phase electricity.

Other types of businesses that make use of three phase power are:

◇ Laundrettes

◇ Specialist medical facilities

◇ Metal Workshops

◇ Small Factories

◇ Food Processing outfits that need freezing and refrigeration

◇ Auto repair shops

◇ Scrapyards

◇ Lodges and spas

◇ Showrooms

Wherever a lot of copper wiring is found in a machine, device or tool, it's a good indication that the devicemakes use of large quantities of electricity. The less copper, the cheaper it is to run; electricity-wise.

Any item, which has a heating element or a cooling fan, is also, more likely than not, consuming a lot of electricity. Any items that vibrate, rotate, oscillate or provide a force of motion (like electric scooters) or hairdryers also consume a substantial amount of power as opposed to manual or semi-manual (for example, with batteries) devices.

Tumble-dryers, heaters, electric blankets, hair irons, ovens and lawnmowers as well as air-conditioners are all high energy consuming appliances that DO trip residential zone power boxes; when used with too many plug points in use, simultaneously. Electric gates, water pumps used for water features, Jacuzzis and swimming pools are also high consumers of electricity.

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PREFACE

This docket of past wrongs and the current continuation of these wrongs; in the context of the never-ending oppression of Africa and all his nations; starts at the very beginning; when white colonizers; daring to call themselves South Africans, at the time; DARING to call themselves the masters of this Sovereign(s) Kingdom; had trespassed upon ancestral and historically indigenous grounds, circumspecting the coast of South Africa.  And settling. Only to try and wholly consume the kind hosts who had given them much-needed water, meat, medicines or remedies and a concerned face peering into yours as you lie on a beach, half-dead: for whatever reason.

It was at this very time-ish that the Powers That Be decided that electricity was only a resource to be handed out amongst the white, suburbia residents. Handed out. Oh no; if you have a power box on your street corner, you are essentially hooked up to the mainframe. Or national grid as it is known. To; with unbridled, mad consumer streke; siphon the "national grid" dry of all it's electricity. Whilst township spend another night in the dark.

The very first streetlamps were installed in Pretori in 1882. In the same year, the Table Bay Harbour had installed 16 Brush Candlepower arc lights, illuminating the harbour; minimizing harm caused to dock workers as the result of accidents; whilst Edisons were shining brightly at the Good Hope Lodge - being the first incandescent lights ever used. They were the result of Edison having promoted a namesake prototype, similar to the design and the function of the modern-day filament lightbulb.

In 1887, the Table Bay Harbour Board  built a centralized station supplying public spaces with lighting only - by means of transformers. This was the first supplier and distributor of it's kind in Africa . The 'New Lighting Works' was built in Pretori in 1897 and thereafter, the 'Rand Central Electric Works' in Brakpan, Johannesburg was established in that same year and was the first central public utility power station.

I do have a point to make. Bear with the short summary of a lot of historical data. That, by the way, I had to doze through to write this exciting "Fuck You!" at inequality.

In the year 1889, Siemens & Halske was contracted by the national government (frauds) of the time to supply electricity to Pretori and Johannesburg.

The Victoria Falls Power Company Ltd. was established in 1903 in Zimbabwe after many wealthy businessmen had spoken with their one-up, in hushed whispers for some time, in smoky parlours - persuading investors to consider bringing the illuminating lights of electricity and various other uses as in the many mining applications of the day - to the gentleman's domestic homestead.

Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company Ltd became the new name three years later; after South African rulers had realized they were onto a good thing. The company is still operational in the coal mining sector; by some heavenly favour; even after the debilitating loss you will read about shortly.

The VFP bought out the Rand Central Electrics Works as well as the General Electric Power Company Ltd. in 1906.

In 1915, VFP built four thermal power stations; one at Vereeniging, one at Brakpan, one in the Simmerpan and of course, one at the Rosherville site; with an installed capacity of Mw160.

Eskom, today, still makes use of the system control centre, which was built at the Simmerpan Thermal Power Station, at about the same time.  Eskom's entire national transmission network is directed through an upgraded, upcycled version of the original system control centre.

The VFP also undertook the laying of South African electricity infrastructure, in the form of long-distance transmission of high voltage electricity in extreme climatic conditions that were prevalent in the Witwatersrand - thunderstorms and so on - and therefore, very dangerous. Salaries and wages must have been competitive.

Unfortunately, in 1910, the Power Act was instituted by the colonial governors of the time, which concluded that, after 35 lank-expensive years of infrastructure laying and the trial and error of new business ventures in the fields of the sciences, most especially, physics, that the company was to be expropriated - by government - along with any other electricity generating and supplying companies (that might have mistakenly thought they had it good); as the government wanted absolute control over (everything AND) what it deemed a utility and essential service.

After the electrification of the South African national railways, ou Trrransnet; UK based consulting engineerial firm Meets & McLellan was requested to inspect the electricity sector and it's incarnations and submit the findings of said inspection to the government. Lord Charles Hesterman Mertz was considered a universal electricity and railway electrification expert and submitted the report in 1920. As a result the Electricity Act was passed in September 1922.

The point of all this is:

a) Zimbaabweee's diamonds were most likely mined and sold and that is what afforded our level of electricity 'infrasructure' here in South Africa as it was the Victoria Falls Power Company that had laid infrastructure for 35 yrs before having to hand it all over to the guvvies of SA. I don't know what dodgy deal had transpired then but clearly Zim owns a piece of S.A. electricity. Or is owed a sweet-toned apology letter and hug. Whilst they starve.

b) David Livingstone's memoirs record the Victoria Falls as being named 'The Smoke That Thunders' or 'The Thundering Smoke'. I think we should respect that and demand that the Zimpeople name their own waterfall with most lovely name ever.

c) Lord so-and-so and Governor so-and-so and railway electrification whatever; all this whilst, at roundabout the same time, His Royal Majesty Zulu King Cetwayo lay in a prison-like cell, at what is now called Oude Molen Eco Village in Maitland Garden Village, where he lived out his years and died; having never set eyes on ZuluLand again.

To definitely be continued ...

Lots of juicy 'WHHAAAAT?' moments and the Unbended Truth.

Sources

https://www.eskom.co.za/heritage/the-early-years/#:~:text=Kimberly%20Electric%20Streetlights%20%E2%80%93%20February%20to,evening%20of%2015%20February%201882.

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