“When Eskom said to the government: ‘We think we must invest more in terms of electricity generation’, we said no, but all you will be doing is just to build excess capacity,”
This according to President Thabo Mbeki, is the why the country is currently experiencing its rolling power outages. Government had so little faith in ESKOM’s intentions that they would not allow ESKOM to build additional capacity. Clearly there was a disconnect between Government economists chanting the 4% growth mantra and the engineers who needed to supply the lifeblood of the economy – electricity.
This is yet another example of the disjointed manner in which planning is done in the public sector.
The Star newspaper reports that the Eastern Cape Department of Health website has an error message with some colourful explanations for why the 404 error has taken place.
The error messages reads as follows:
PAGE NOT FOUND
Sorry….but the page you are looking for cannot be found
This could happen for several reasons:
1. The page may have been reached in error.
2. The page may have moved.
3. The page may no longer exist.
4. The page is on holiday and will be out of the office until next week or when it feels like coming back.
5. The page was considered redundant and was given a raise so it now works even less.
6. The page performed and illegal operation and was promoted to vice-president.
7. The page was on strike. We are busy negotiating with the unions now for better wages so it can come online.
8. The page is running late. This could be because the taxi’s need to collect at least another 404 passengers.
9. The page is sleeping . After all, this is African time we are talking about.
According to the Star the department claim that their site was not hacked.
2008 has begun with a big bang.
New president for the ANC, Kenya in turmoil, Bhutto assassinated in Pakistan, Obama wins in Iowa, and the list goes on.
Our first day back in the office and 2008 we’ve been running crazy bedding down two new clients that we have secured. One is a large metropolitan municipality for whom we have been contracted to complete a multi million rand project assessment and verification project and the other is for the Social Housing Foundation, assisting them in developing a delivery chain for the Community Residential Unit (CRU) Programme.
Sustainable human settlement development is the core to the realisation of the goals of the second decade of democracy in South Africa. This stage our democratic development has as its goal, moving the country towards the eradication of poverty and underdevelopment by expanding socio-material citizenship, enhancing the process of social cohesion and building social solidarity by dealing with the structural manifestation of poverty, under-development and marginalisation. Underpinning this, is the commitment to build sustainable human settlements that restore the dignity and citizenship of the poor and is responsive to their coping and livelihood strategies. The CRU Programme plays an important role in supporting this objective.
In addition to these two new projects we have made significant progress in identifying new areas for investment, more about this in the coming months.
2008 is looking to be a good year for Erasibo, here’s hoping it’ll be a good year for you as well.