Posts tagged with 'maintenance'

 

When Corruption Becomes Deadly! PRASA Heading For A Train Crash With No Brake Sets in Stock! South Africa Being Turned into a Train Wreck!

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#TheAfricanWay at PRASA – Are you sure you want to get on that train? Management at PRASA have looted all the money, even for train brakes, now they are scratching around in old drums looking for old second hand parts to use!

An official inspection by the the Rail Safety Regulator (RSR) at the Braamfontein maintenance premises of PRASA, has found that they don’t have a single train brake set in stock, and can’t replace worn brake parts on PRASA trains. This finding by the Rail Safety Regulator has been officially communicated to Prasa in a letter addressed to them on 22 January.

PRASA has been ordered to provide the RSR with proof that it intends to solve the shortage of brake block sets and Prasa has also been ordered to provide assurances and proof that all brake block sets on trains are in a safe serviceable order. It has highly doubtful that Prasa will comply to all this because it has been widely reported that Prasa is completely
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Eskom Sinks To Lowest Output Ever, With Dim Outlook, Despite Two New White Managers Tasked With Reversing Mind Numbing Corruption From 25 Years of ANC Plunder & Misrule!

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Eskom has reached a historic low in terms of output during the last month. This slow rot and decay is then also the historic achievement, or lowpoint of the ANC, with its implementation of mind numbing and all pervasive corruption, crony tender practices and their Africanization or black quota recruitment policies and cadre deployment program.

In other words their implementation of #TheAfricanWay has finally led to more than a third of Eskom’s installed generating capacity being out of order in January 2020. Only 61,5% of its generating units are able to produce power at the moment. Chris Yelland, an energy expert, told Netwerk24 that this is the worst performance level for Eskom ever.

Yelland called Eskom’s current performance a historic low. A shocking 28,41 % of total Eskom capacity was not available in the past month due to Eskom’s power units breaking down. Units breaking down can only be attributed to a lack of maintenance over
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ANC government focused on looting and not maintenance of infrastructure- over a period of 25 years they repeatedly showed that they are was unable to manage or govern

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The ANC government’s focus so far has been mainly on the looting of the fiscus and not on the maintenance of the country’s infrastructure and other state assets.

Proper infrastructure is the lifeblood of the economy and ensures that residents have access to roads, bridges, schools, water and many other services. Without proper infrastructure maintenance, no country can survive economically. No international investor will come to invest money in South Africa while infrastructure is not being renovated and maintained

In South Africa, the onus is on the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure to do this maintenance. Not only is the department the custodian and manager of the state’s real estate assets, but also the creator and maintainer of South Africa’s infrastructure

However, this does not happen and just like the government, this department failed the people of South Africa. The focus was mainly on looting and the
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Eskom may be peddling its problems – now wants to sell some of its power plants to cut losses due to maintenance costs

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Eskom plans to sell off its power plants in order to get rid of the bigger problems in the industry.

Informed sources told Die Vryburger that Eskom wants to sell its power plants that require large maintenance costs and are guilty of the huge pollution in certain areas such as the Eastern Transvaal to private entrepreneurs.

Eskom’s financial crisis does not allow him to do proper maintenance and end the huge air pollution, and now it seems that he would prefer to sell such power plants.

Eskom has still focused on the possibility of nuclear power generation, but the bankrupt entity will not be able to raise the funds for it.

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Humour has it that  ANC regime can reduce SA’s  debt burden by increasing VAT to 20% – nobody is keeping pace with the fact that corruption are the cause of state debt

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The government should increase the VAT rate by at least 5% to reduce the debt burden in the provincial roads’ maintenance account which is now six times higher than the province’s expenditure.

Reports indicate that the South African roads, which are in a dire state, are now desperately seeking funds since there is was already a backlog of R197bn in 2013 to more than R400bn.

The figures are the logical conclusion that is made by experts and with very bad humour that this  problem can be solved by increasing VAT to 19% or 20%, but the problem may escalate if the funds end up in corrupt hands.

-Read the original article in Afrikaans on Vryburger

This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

 

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How low can you go? – Free State father hired hit-man to “take out” son since he did not want to continue paying maintenance

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A father who did not want to continue paying maintenance after he retired as a teacher has been sentenced to life behind bars for arranging the murder of his own son.

Kearabetswe Molatole, 17, was found dead at his father’s home in Gladstone, Thaba ‘Nchu, in the Free State after soccer practice in April 2017.

Kelebogile Molatole, 50, Khoeliea-Marena Sefuthi, 53, and Tebogo Molatole, 47, were each sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for the murder of Molatole’s son.

Free State police spokesperson Col Thandi Mbambo said the teenager’s cousin left him after soccer practice to buy soft drinks at a shop.

“On his return he found Kearabetswe lying in a pool of blood in the back room of his father’s house … Police were summoned and it was discovered that the boy had been shot in the head and chest,” Mbambo said in a statement.

The provincial organised crime task team was assigned to investig
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ANC –regime states that water supply in SA is sufficient to meet all demands although sewage pollution and no maintenance of municipal structures wastes millions of liters of water

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South Africa has enough water to provide the residents within the winter months, but then it must be used sparingly.

This is according to ANC government spokesman who also states that the water is sufficient to meet the needs during the coming dry months of the year.

However, experts are much more concerned about the water supply, saying the severe pollution in the storage dams of the country makes the availability much less than in the dams.

Dams’ water levels range from 75% full but the rapid drop of more than 6% in one week makes red light flicker.

Concerns are about the irresponsible waste of millions of liters of water that sometimes runs away from leaking pipes in streets, and then receives no attention for days.

The equipment of municipalities that are not regularly repaired or serviced has a huge impact on the quality of water coming into the taps and forcing consumers to buy bottled water.

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The national rail system of SA are in serious trouble – Prasa had nearly 50 collisions last year alone, Transnet had nearly 1,000 collisions – The ANC have some serious explaining to do and this is not Jan van Riebeeck or apartheid’s fault but lack of no maintenance

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Railway engineer and analyst Dr Willem Sprong says the rail network can still be saved, but only just.

With only three months left on their contracts, the Passenger Rail Agency SA’s (Prasa) board still has time and money to fix the failing agency.

This is according to railway engineer and analyst Dr Willem Sprong, who is technical director for railway engineering at Gibb Engineering.

Sprong has over 20 years’ experience in the industry.

It’s not a secret that Prasa and, in fact, the national rail system are in serious trouble.

Transport Minister Blade Nzimande appointed an interim board last year with a one-year mandate to change “the state of paralysis” at the rail agency.

Since their appointment, a number of accidents have led to deaths and injuries.

Headlines have been littered with sad news as the agency stumbles from one crisis to the next, with system failures common and passengers deserting rail trans
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