{"id":39510,"date":"2023-05-24T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/24\/south-africa-load-shedding-the-roots-of-eskoms-power-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:25:14","slug":"south-africa-load-shedding-the-roots-of-eskoms-power-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=39510","title":{"rendered":"South Africa load-shedding: The roots of Eskom&#8217;s power problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">If you are looking to understand South Africa&#8217;s current struggles &#8211; its soaring crime and unemployment rates, its stubborn inequality and stagnant economy, its relentless corruption and crippling power cuts, and its broader drift towards what some fear could become &#8220;gangster state&#8221; or even &#8220;failed state&#8221; territory &#8211; then this one act of industrial sabotage, at a coal-fired power station on the high plains east of Johannesburg, is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-65671718?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If you are looking to understand South Africa&#8217;s current struggles &#8211; its soaring crime and unemployment rates, its stubborn inequality and stagnant economy, its relentless corruption and crippling power &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}