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Eastern Cape Premier, Oscar Mabuyane, has called on communities to remain on high alert after the South African Weather Services (SAWS) at the weekend issued a level 6 warning for disruptive storms in the province.The Office of the Premier in a statement said municipalities that are to be impacted have been notified. These include Elundini, Dr AB Xuma (formerly known as Engcobo), Great Kei, Ingquza Hill, Intsika Yethu, King Sabata Dalindyebo, Matatiele, Mbhashe, Mbizana, Mhlontlo, Mnquma, … [Read more...] about Eastern Cape warns of severe weather conditions

As part of the broad measures to address the loadshedding crisis, Eskom has today launched three programmes to procure much needed power for the national grid.Initially the programmes will focus on generators capable of supplying more than one Megawatt to the grid. Over time the threshold will be lowered to enable smaller producers to participate. The combined impact of the programmes, predicted to exceed 1 000MW, will make an important contribution towards reducing the loadshedding burden on … [Read more...] about Eskom Launches Three Programmes to Procure Power for National Grid

Something else from MyGqeberhaAt his 100 Days report back Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, answers questions (in isiXhosa) about The Red Location Museum and additional overseas funds being made available for the cities IPTS system. Go On - Share the Gqeberha Love! Views Since 15 July 2022: 0 Gqeberha's Latest News and Events can be accessed on MyGqeberha.com. … [Read more...] about Gqeberha News: Sherwood home disappears piece by piece

Something else from MyGqeberhaThis seems to be a common problem with a certain plugin…. For me the following error occurred whilst setting up a WordPress Plugin called BusinessDirectory – after installing and setting up the pages I got the following error when trying to Add a Business Directory Link: “It appears your submission was successful. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this … [Read more...] about Gqeberha News: All men social club launched

With Stage 6 loadshedding firmly upon us I have been reading and publishing press releases from municipal media communications for Cape Town and Johannesburg extolling plans being put in place to shield citizens from further hardship.See: City of Cape Town protects consumers against one stage of loadshedding, again AND City of Cape Town’s innovation leading the way to mitigate effects of loadshedding And from the Nelson Mandela Bay collection of thieves and bunglers we get Bupkis, Nada, Niks, … [Read more...] about The Eksdom Debacle – Leaving Gqeberha Behind

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says the power utility is working hard to bring back failing generation units and restore stability to the grid.This after multiple trips, breakdowns and delays in return to service at generation units caused the implementation of Stage 6 load shedding over the weekend. De Ruyter said teams at coal fired power stations are “working flat out” to bring back generation units as quickly as they can. He warned, however, that not all units will be immediately available to … [Read more...] about Eskom “working flat out” to restore energy to grid

Editor: From Loadshedding to Datashedding to Watershedding to NoPooShedding!Dear Editor Nelson Mandela Bay is on the verge of a health and environmental disaster due to the municipality not protecting all of its wastewater treatment works from loadshedding. Millions of litres of raw sewage is flowing into the metro due to several wastewater treatment works not operating during loadshedding. This is happening while the municipality has the ability to protect these facilities from … [Read more...] about NMB must protect wastewater works from loadshedding