Loyal ANC voters not easily swayed
Continuous power from solar panels
IT IS TIME for South Africans to purchase photovoltaic (PV) solar panels which are placed on rooftops, storage batteries and inverters so that load shedding becomes a thing of the past.
One can still be connected to Eskom, but it would be as a back-up for long periods of cloudy weather or a sudden, above average increase in electricity consumption.
The batteries would be used as a power reservoir. The system would be costly as a large investment up front, but:
It will add value to your home, business, office or factory.
It will provide continuous power even if Eskom power goes off.
It will definitely be profitable in the long term since the capital cost will be recouped after a few years by paying lower electricity bills to the municipality/Eskom.
It will reduce our carbon footprint and lead to a greener world.
It is better, cheaper and greener than the noisy back-up generator, etc.
If we do not do this, we would be:
Subsidising increasingly bloated, incompetent, wasteful, corrupt and lazy municipal and Eskom officials.
Subsidise squatters and other people who are illegally connected to the grid through the Izinyoka and get-free-electricity schemes.
Pay for increasing maintenance backlog costs at Eskom.
Contribute to global warming, etc.
This will ensure that as people reduce their electricity purchases from the municipality/Eskom cabal, Eskom would be forced to increase rates further.
This will signal the downward spiral for Eskom and many municipalities who live off profits made from selling electricity until they collapse from the sheer weight of their bloated, incompetent, corrupt and wasteful bureaucracies. NAUSHAD OMAR
East London NO AMOUNT of insult to President Zuma and the ANC will sway voters to other political parties, as proven in recent by-elections where the ANC got more than 85 percent.
African people by nature are very loyal to any course they are involved in, be it politics, sports, marriage, etc.
The loyalty I am talking about is not a “blind” loyalty: if a municipality governed by the ANC is slow on service delivery, members of ANC will picket, demonstrating their dissatisfaction, but will stay put with the party and be part of the solution.
I am a supporter of Orlando Pirates – there was a dry spell of 10 years without a trophy, while Kaizer Chiefs collected all the trophies on offer. We envied their success, we tolerated a barrage of insults from their supporters, but remained loyal, and after 10 years, Pirates put smiles on our faces by winning six trophies in succession.
In South Africa, blacks are in the majority, but a minority in divorce courts. It doesn’t mean there are no problems that warrant divorce, but you don’t walk away from your family because of problems.
It’s ironic that white people who supported apartheid and benefited from the system are now experts on matters of democracy. From 1948 to 1994, apartheid was sustained by whites through voting and endorsing the National Party agenda. Many of those white people are members of the DA and very vocal on corruption, forgetting that their wonderful life is as a result of apartheid.
This is to remind those selfappointed ANC and Zuma bashers that your efforts to appease your bosses are not yielding the desired results. Having a black face for a leader of the DA won’t distract us. MLULEKI NALA
Montclair