Land claims, whether legitimate, fraudulent or opportunistic, can cripple farms, businesses and the families that depend on them. Thousands of land transactions, financing applications and plans to develop or expand have been scuttled by land claims, and this has cost South Africa incalculably in terms of jobs and rural development. That is why the family farmer network, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI), decided to publish the largest digital land claims database online. Until now the ANC and Department of Agriculture have done everything possible to keep this information secret, but now the SAAI web page enables users to determine their land claim status in about 20 seconds!
SAAI Discloses Land Claims Database Online! Charges Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza with Contempt of Court
Who Needs Corrupt Dirty Eskom? Mining Houses Going Off Grid & So Should You, But is ANC Waiting For a Bribe Before Issuing Solarfarm Approval?
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Big Mining Houses are tired of the constant disruption to production that Eskom mismanagement and corruption have caused and have already begun urgent planning to make power generation more stable, by using alternative solar panel energy generation.
Gold Fields’ plans show that they can obtain about 20% of their energy consumption from clean renewable solar, which can operate for the next two decades.
Gold Fields is planning a new “Sonplaas” which will be erected outside Johannesburg and is expected to be ready within three years, but unfortunately the corrupt ANC still needs to approve the plan, so now the mining house has to wait for the ANC minister to issue the certificate so that they can proceed with the project, which will probably mean “greasing some corrupt official’s palm”.
The Mine has lost Millions of Rand in recent weeks with the rolling power cuts, and the Minister’s approach of dragging th
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#Rollingblackouts: Experts doubt Eskom’s Stage 4 load-shedding excuse , South Africa is once again in the dark
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Eskom implemented Stage 4 load-shedding just after noon on Saturday and rolling blackouts are set to continue on Sunday.
The power utility blames the shortage of generation capacity on plant breakdowns and the loss of Mozambique imports.
But energy analyst Chris Yelland says Stage 4 load-shedding on a weekend is unprecedented.
Doubts cast on Eskom’s load shedding excuses
Cyclone Idai is not solely to blame for current energy blackout.
In a recent interview with ENCA, energy analyst Chris Yelland spoke to the inaccuracies of Eskom’s latest load shedding excuses.
The latest
Eskom’s latest excuse for the energy blackout points at cyclone Idai affecting power production, and the transmission of electricity from supplier Mozambique.
This seems to be a valid excuse until Yelland points out the flawed logic. With Stage 4 load shedding in effect, South Africa (SA) is short 4,000-megawatts of electricity. Yet, Moz
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