"[Eskom] needs R20 billion of funding by the end of its fiscal year on March 31" (2018)

"Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in September said the utility was the biggest single risk to the South African economy and that the government needed to replace its management."

and that's just two aspects of the shitshow that is south african infrastructure

Eskom is the _sole_ supplier of electricty to the grid

- they're out of money
- they're required _by new law as of summer 2017_ to employ people in the same distribution as exists in the population, racially, and there are simply not enough black engineers
- there's already rolling blackouts continously in the major cities, the company says there's like 20% of the grid that they can't feed

I think it was something like 80% of the employees of eskom were white, and now they need to not just hire blacks, but actually replace the existing workers

"WPC Kim-Louise Carter was awarded £15,000 after failing a fitness test which involved a 10-mile run, then carrying a dog over a course before running with it a further 100 yards."

wait

money for failing?

for *failing*?

*Re-reads. again.*

"She added how she had “dug deep, real deep” to keep up with men who had moved at a faster pace, adding: “I could lift the dog but had nothing left to carry him. I just couldn’t get any momentum.”"

I DID MY BEST AND IF THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH YOU ARE SEXIST

you know.

reminds me of this British army documentary

or some sort of reality TV series

about recruits

hahaha

yeah I remember that shit

and the females kept failing the jogging thing

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I saw one episode by accident while I was at a hotel in Brisbane

"The judge agreed women were at particular disadvantage compared with men and awarded Miss Carter a total of £14,930 for indirect sex discrimination."

Then Robocop 2 came on afterwards so I had to stay awake for that

so she wasn't _paid_ as such for failing

.......

"women were at a particular disadvantage compared with men"

O

**RLY**??

https://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/image589.png

my uncle actually made trophies and engravings for at least 3 decades in a dedicated shop in their basement

most of them were unique for the first 2 decades, he says

then came the participation ones, and he loved it, easy work

@folk "Vidya games destroys families!"

literally lol

kek

"He then allegedly grabbed a gun, fired two shots into a wall, then shot his mother before his 81-year-old father wrestled away the weapon."

da fuq beta

Autist

that feel when your 81 yr old father is stronger than you

that feel when your Dad is probably your Grandad