Saturday, January 17, 2015
PE's only Power Station Switched [OFF] Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
This is PE's only power station which was switched off by the ANC governed into the ground city.
Shame.
I heard via the grape vine that the guts within the power station had been sold, if sold its not hard to guess where the money went [Please Investigate].
Stealing Eskom into Bankruptcy Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
By Mike Smith
13th of January 2015
It is official. Eskom is broke. They will run out of money by the end of January and on the brink of a national blackout.
“The only options appear to be a government bailout – in the form of a cash injection – or further guarantees, or severe load shedding.”
Don’t you just love how they use the term “government bailout” as if government will come to our rescue. It is a “TAXPAYER BAILOUT”. In other words the taxpayers who have already paid for their electricity will now have to pay even more just to rescue Eskom, not “Government”.
Government owns Eskom. It is the only shareholder. Government (or rather a lack thereof) is the reason Eskom is in the state it is in. They are not the rescuers. They are the cause of the problem.
They want to give Eskom a cash injection of R20-billion (raised through the sale of Eskom’s assets apparently) and existing government guarantees that would allow the utility to borrow R250-billion over the next five years. How in God’s name can you borrow yourself out of debt? The mind boggles.
“Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona on Monday told stakeholders that one unexpected event at any of its power stations could push the country to the total failure of the national electricity system that may take weeks to resolve.Eskom previously said it might take two weeks to restart the electricity system, should a national black-out occur.”
"Matona told the delegates that the diesel budget was depleted and Eskom was hoping for money from government “but they are not collecting [from] their municipal debtors,”
“Henk van de Graaf, assistant executive manager of agricultural body TLU SA said: “We are concerned, because [for] farmers who rely on irrigation for growing cash crops, especially vegetables … the whole cold chain is dependent on electricity and if it cannot be preserved, the consumer will be affected.”
“Van de Graaf also questioned why farmers who do not pay their full Eskom account are being disconnected, but there are no consequences for municipalities that fail to pay.”
So you see? Again Whitey gets punished for blacks stealing electricity in the townships. No electricity means no water and no food. But the stealing continues and whitey keeps on paying. Good old whitey doesn’t want to create a fuzz lest he be accused of “racism” for saying the ANC is useless, because as we have heard from our illustrious president, “It is all Apartheid’s fault”.
One of my readers sent me this info:
Eskom diesel situation.
SA total diesel consumption for 2009 were 9.1 billion litres.
That implies a rate of approx. 1 million litres per hour on average.
Consumption for Escom is 425,000l/h at Ankerlig and 236,000l/h
At Gourikwa resulting at a total of 661,000l/h.
During 2014 these units were operating at 17h/week resulting
In an over expenditure of R10bn.
It is likely that these generators will now run much more hours per week.
The consequences on the diesel availability for the rest of SA could be serious.
IE the consumption could rise from say 5% to perhaps more than 50% of total.
Zuma’s Trillion Rand Project.
One trillion is 10exp12 on the short scale.
If you assume the mass of a R200 note is one gram .
(I have measured a lot on the wife’s small kitchen scale and one gram is close),then:
One million Rand in R200 notes will have a mass of 50kg,and
One trillion Rand in R200 notes will have a mass of 5,000 Ton
Assume the earth has a circumference of 40,000km and
The length of a R200 note is 152mm,then:
One trillion Rand will take you around the earth 19 times
When placed in a single row.
-------------------------
Puts it a bit into perspective, right?
Now let me show you how that electricity gets stolen. It is a free for all in the townships. These guys just knocks a hole in the side of the wall and plug into the local substation wherever they want. Eskom and Government are turning a blind eye.
These pictures are from the PE Herald in Port Elizabeth. Now when whitey wants electricity in his house, he must get it done and signed off by a qualified electrician with a wireman’s license at great cost. Such are the double standards in SA. There is no ONE LAW for everyone.
I mean how simple can it be to catch these perpetrators? You just follow the cable to his house or shack. Why is it not being done?
13th of January 2015
It is official. Eskom is broke. They will run out of money by the end of January and on the brink of a national blackout.
“The only options appear to be a government bailout – in the form of a cash injection – or further guarantees, or severe load shedding.”
Don’t you just love how they use the term “government bailout” as if government will come to our rescue. It is a “TAXPAYER BAILOUT”. In other words the taxpayers who have already paid for their electricity will now have to pay even more just to rescue Eskom, not “Government”.
Government owns Eskom. It is the only shareholder. Government (or rather a lack thereof) is the reason Eskom is in the state it is in. They are not the rescuers. They are the cause of the problem.
They want to give Eskom a cash injection of R20-billion (raised through the sale of Eskom’s assets apparently) and existing government guarantees that would allow the utility to borrow R250-billion over the next five years. How in God’s name can you borrow yourself out of debt? The mind boggles.
“Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona on Monday told stakeholders that one unexpected event at any of its power stations could push the country to the total failure of the national electricity system that may take weeks to resolve.Eskom previously said it might take two weeks to restart the electricity system, should a national black-out occur.”
"Matona told the delegates that the diesel budget was depleted and Eskom was hoping for money from government “but they are not collecting [from] their municipal debtors,”
“Henk van de Graaf, assistant executive manager of agricultural body TLU SA said: “We are concerned, because [for] farmers who rely on irrigation for growing cash crops, especially vegetables … the whole cold chain is dependent on electricity and if it cannot be preserved, the consumer will be affected.”
“Van de Graaf also questioned why farmers who do not pay their full Eskom account are being disconnected, but there are no consequences for municipalities that fail to pay.”
So you see? Again Whitey gets punished for blacks stealing electricity in the townships. No electricity means no water and no food. But the stealing continues and whitey keeps on paying. Good old whitey doesn’t want to create a fuzz lest he be accused of “racism” for saying the ANC is useless, because as we have heard from our illustrious president, “It is all Apartheid’s fault”.
One of my readers sent me this info:
Eskom diesel situation.
SA total diesel consumption for 2009 were 9.1 billion litres.
That implies a rate of approx. 1 million litres per hour on average.
Consumption for Escom is 425,000l/h at Ankerlig and 236,000l/h
At Gourikwa resulting at a total of 661,000l/h.
During 2014 these units were operating at 17h/week resulting
In an over expenditure of R10bn.
It is likely that these generators will now run much more hours per week.
The consequences on the diesel availability for the rest of SA could be serious.
IE the consumption could rise from say 5% to perhaps more than 50% of total.
Zuma’s Trillion Rand Project.
One trillion is 10exp12 on the short scale.
If you assume the mass of a R200 note is one gram .
(I have measured a lot on the wife’s small kitchen scale and one gram is close),then:
One million Rand in R200 notes will have a mass of 50kg,and
One trillion Rand in R200 notes will have a mass of 5,000 Ton
Assume the earth has a circumference of 40,000km and
The length of a R200 note is 152mm,then:
One trillion Rand will take you around the earth 19 times
When placed in a single row.
-------------------------
Puts it a bit into perspective, right?
Now let me show you how that electricity gets stolen. It is a free for all in the townships. These guys just knocks a hole in the side of the wall and plug into the local substation wherever they want. Eskom and Government are turning a blind eye.
These pictures are from the PE Herald in Port Elizabeth. Now when whitey wants electricity in his house, he must get it done and signed off by a qualified electrician with a wireman’s license at great cost. Such are the double standards in SA. There is no ONE LAW for everyone.
I mean how simple can it be to catch these perpetrators? You just follow the cable to his house or shack. Why is it not being done?
Posted by Mike Smith at 4:03 AM
mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
The Death of PE Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
School
Destroyed by Africans in Just Eight Weeks
This school
cost R40 Million to build in Port Elizabeth but was literally stolen brick
by brick in a short space of just eight weeks. Meant to serve a black township
nothing is left of the structure for use by future generations who are critically short of
schools and teachers. “Liberation before edukaton”, that’s about right you idiots!
School carried away brick by brick in just two months
November 6, 2014 | Filed
under: News,Top News, | Posted by: Allan Williams
Quote: “Gqebera High School, which cost R40-million to build, went from
eight buildings to only support beams, with residents carrying off bricks and
tiles bit by bit to add to their own homes or sell”.
Read more……
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Death of PE Highways Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
Plunder of roadside
safety barriers grows
December
29, 2014 | Filed under: News,Top News, | Posted by: Allan Williams
DANGER
POINT: The railing on the M4 freeway at the Albany Road off-andon-ramphas
systematically disappeared over the past months Picture Eugene Coetzee
KILOMETRES
of steel and aluminium railings along Nelson Mandela Bay’s freeways have been
stolen.
This
not only puts a financial burden on the municipality’s distressed coffers but
also poses a serious danger to public safety.
Unchecked
scrap metal and second-hand dealers are fuelling the plunder of the
infrastructure.
Thieves
have also resorted to stealing drain covers to pawn to scrap-metal dealers.
Municipal
spokesman Mthubanzi Mniki said the metro was fighting a losing battle, with
incidents of theft daily and the problem rearing its head at different
locations with alarming regularity.
Mniki
estimated damage caused stood at more than R1-million.
Read more……….
Article
sourced : http://www.heraldlive.co.za/plunder-roadside-safety-barriers-grows/
The Death of St George's Park and Port Elizabeth
Vagrants move into historic cemetery
SQUATTERS have set up a crude shelter inside Port Elizabeth’s historic St George’s Park Cemetery, near the world-renowned cricket ground.A visit to the cemetery this week showed a graveyard in a bad state of disrepair, with overgrown, uncared for graves, broken headstones and litter strewn around the site.
Despite locked gates and security fencing on one side of the site, the cemetery is easily accessed over a low boundary wall on another.
Vagrants have constructed their shelter in the walled grave structure between two other graves. There is bedding inside and a washing line has been erected outside.
- Shaun Gillham
Picture and article source: http://www.heraldlive.co.za/
Sunday, January 4, 2015
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Early Settler House - Canterbury House - Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
Early Settler House - Canterbury House- (NMC/Grade 2) C.1837.
This house was restored around 1965 and sold on to a Mr Ofsowitz who in
1973 controversially removed the four gabled settler roof and put a Mansard
Roof to incorporate a jacuzzi in the attic space. However, the house was well
maintained until the current owner, Mr Kenneth J Denton bought the house around
2000.
On the 1st March 2005, there was a fire that destroyed the 1970's top
floor, but the ground and first floor was saved (see photos from 2012). It is
claimed that vagrants who had moved into the derelict house and started the
fire. Incidentally DA Councillor Terry Herbst had earlier reported that the
door had been broken down (just three weeks before the fire), confirming that
vagrants had been allowed to take over, despite complaints to Denton
Properties. Denton and other residents stood and watched as the house burnt.
When questioned, Denton said "The place has been kept empty in order for
renovations to be done to it" Denton also promised the Mandela Bay
Development Agency a few days later that he would repair and properly restore
the building. (Herald 2 March 2005). It is ironic that 'Special assignment'
happened to be in the area broadcasting a feature on the decline of Central.
2003-2005 saw three of Denton's properties suffer fires. To date this number is
more than double that.
While the fire was limited to the top (attic) floor and the yellowwood
floorboards and detailing still in situ, they have been allowed to decay.
Canterbury house has been vacant and open to the elements for more than 8 years
(2013) and the owner has made no effort to repair the buildings. It appears,
however that work is to about to commence, as it has in the immediate vicinity,
but as yet no work being done in this area has been sanctioned by any Heritage
authorities, hence it is illegal. There is a well documented history of
non-compliance with regard the owner, who refuses to work with PHRA.
This is a Grade 2 listed structure, and while greatly compromised in
terms of decayed fabric, should be reinstated inside and out, with due record
taken of fabric still in situ and replacing this sparingly with materials to
the specifications of the original. Unfortunately, irreparable damage to and
loss of fabric has taken place on Mr Denton's other illegal projects and the
fear is that layers of history will also be discarded, as has sadly taken place
with regard to the Donkin Street Houses, where tons of bricks have been
removed.
Canterbury House, 35 Constitution Hill
"From the records of Messrs. Smith Sons and Dewar, Surveyors. E.
Province Building Society, Port Elizabeth.
A title deed reading "Surveyed by the undersigned Government Land
Surveyor, Uitenhage, the 29th May, 1837.
I hereby certify that this diagram belongs to the
transfef (?) Richard Tee. January 26, 1841.
Transferred to John Flanagan 14-8-73
To Mary Flanagan 1886"
Richard Tee, aged 34 in 1820, was a settler in Damant's party,
travelling on the ship "Ocean", and accompanied by his wife, Mary,
three daughters, and one son. A Timothy Flanagan, 38 in 1820, came out in
Bailie's party on the "Chapman". He and his wife Mary had three sons
and a daughter. The Timothy of 1873 was probably a descendant.
In a map dated 1849 [Essenhigh map], now in possession of the P.E.
Public Library [Africana Collection], a building is shown on the site, but the
terrace of houses in Donkin Street, now proclaimed a historical monument, had
not yet been built.
The house is built of stone and plastered extensions at the back, built
of brick and some stonework, are probably rather later in date. The internal
woodwork is of very primitive construction, with very low doorways, and exposed
joists in the yellowwood floors. [very similar to those of No. 7 Castle Hill
Museum]. The balcony in front appears to be of a later date and may have been
added by Flanagan in 1873.
Professor R.B. Lewcock, author of "Early Nineteenth Century
Architecture in South Africa" recommends that the house should be
preserved and says that if the present roof were replaced with tile or slates
its appearance would be substantially the same as the original. He adds, "I
consider that it would be a serious loss to Port Elizabeth were this building
to be altered or demolished"
Mr. Alec Kiddie bought and restored the house about five years ago, and
about a year ago sold it to Mr. Donald Prosser who inherits 1820 settler blood
of several streams - (Rowles, Preston, Mortimer, Calverley and Larter). He is
most anxious that the house be preserved, and if so, would probably remove the
balcony and slate of the roof."
(Looking Back, Vol. 10 1970 - publication by the Historical Society of
Port Elizabeth)
The property immediately to the left of Canterbury House (No. 35) is
'Little Canterbury' (No. 37), these both date from the same period (c. 1837)
****
The long saga of our 'trashed' heritage has involved many concerned
citizens following every possible avenue over the years to hold Denton
accountable for his lack of maintenance dating back to the early 2000's. The
Metro and its arms have been under pressure for years to pursue this issue and
to force this owner to repair and restore his prominent heritage properties.
Sadly, the Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Agency (ECPHRA)
has largely been ineffectual and non-functional, and support from SAHRA is not
forthcoming. ECPHRA has yet to issue a single Compulsory Repair Order to any
property owner in Port Elizabeth. A report commissioned in 2007 on the urban
decay of central, clearly outlined courses of action the Metro could take
against errant property owners. Interestingly, this survey, commissioned at
taxpayers' expense, was shelved and this was only released after much public
pressure. To date nothing has been done, except the customary lipservice paid
by the current administration.
As time passes, it seems that the heritage authorities, the Metro and
its agencies are becoming less and less effective and there is a total lack of
will to preserve 'colonial buildings'. Very short sighted indeed when one
considers the huge untapped tourism potential of PE. Corruption and complete
collapse of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has reached saturation point
and it seems that this influential property owner is untouchable. Now that
decay has been allowed to set in, more damage is being inflicted in terms of
illegal and highly invasive work on heritage sites that cannot be called
restoration by any stretch of the imagination. Lack of enforcement continues
and we are losing our treasures fast and we feel powerless to stop it.
Those with the powers to act, have failed the citizens of Port Elizabeth
dismally, especially Port Elizabeth's 'tourism nest-egg', as stated by Helen
Zille so succinctly after visiting Central in 2010.
A collection of Herald articles relating to built heritage issues
spanning 2002 to 2009 speaks for itself (dropbox - 32MB in size):
Picture and article source: These pictures and articles are from the Heritageportal which deals with the history of old buildings in South Africa. Credit to photographer and writer of publication.
1820 Settlers Association of South Africa - Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
1820 Settlers Association of South Africa
The 1820 Settlers' Association is a living memorial which perpetuates
the memory of the 1820 British Settlers and is registered in South Africa as a
non-profit organisation. The Association sponsors William Jervois at the Albany
Museum as their resident genealogist and representative in Grahamstown. They
also have a representative in George, who looks after the Outeniqua area, and a
branch in Durban, Natal. Currently there are over 1200 members, including a few
overseas members, who have paid an entrance or joining fee and then an annual
subscription. The Association publishes a bi-monthly newsletter with matters of
interest for our members - fund-raising events - and social functions. One does
not have to be a descendant of the 1820 Settlers to qualify for membership, but
of course quite a few members are! The Port Elizabeth Branch publishes a
calendar each year featuring water colour paintings by their Art Group. They
also have 1820 Settlers Christmas cards with Christmas greetings from Port
Elizabeth which can be ordered from the regional offices. If you are a
descendant of an 1820 Settler, you have an opportunity to own a unique
certificate!! Submit your ancestry details to William Jervois for him to
research and verify.
Organisation Entry
Contact Details
Landline:
041 581 4031
Website:
Location:
Eastern Cape
Port Elizabeth
Richmond Hill
Picture insert mine
Saturday, December 20, 2014
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