Lardo Stander

Everything is Economics, and that is all there is to it. - LS
Economist first, civil servant close second.
Views and opinions are entirely my own.

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@PantsiMelikhaya @Ngwana_Badimu Also Moshate Gardens, Wallmanstahl and the 17 other illegal towns or suburbs

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@IvynSambo QLFS shows 85,000 jobs were lost in Tshwane from April 2025 to June 2026.

We should contextualise "creating jobs" very carefully.

Our economy is not growing (and hasn't for the last decade). That should be the only problem we must all feverishly work at solving.

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@RandL0rd @M_Jay94 But Eskom currently has about 4 GW of headroom at evening peak, meaning they generate more than current demand. We don't have a shortage of MWs in the country currently.

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@Rahul_AJ_1990 They don't appoint themselves, do they? And good luck with voting out the inefficient government.

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@lesofthelight @DrLungi_Mashele NERSA includes the losses, i.e. it is allowed that paying customers pay for the losses hence "allows". Credit loss guidelines are 5%, munis run at 15-25%, customers pay for it. Energy losses run at 20-40% (incl illegals), customers pay for it. All risk sit with paying customers!

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@lesofthelight @DrLungi_Mashele People in general don't really know what a "public good" means. One way costs could be reduced (there are many): NERSA allows 12% energy loss and 5% revenue loss in the revenue calculation. That's 17% of the tariff......

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@BuddyWells1 Different view. Inefficient hiring is part of the state inefficiency, and sure, rent-seeking agents from OUTSIDE. You must spend some time IN government to understand how completely inefficient cadre deployment and something like Preferential Procurement really is.

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@Brendennel @MarkCra99171574 Calling one of the greats of the game a mercenary is a bit tough, don't you think?

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@Newzroom405 But that is the NERSA approved tariff model, which clearly outlines what can be part of the cost-reflective tariff they approved. Salaries, technical losses, non-technical losses, margins, repairs and maintenance - it's all included in the approved tariff structure. Nothing new.

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@RiseAgainstEvil Hoekom luister jy na 'n Zimbabwiër oor Suid-Afrikaanse aangeleenthede?

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@BuddyWells1 @ManciSiya Remember that migrant workers send remittances back to their homes as well, which is spent in the local economy. So the migrant worker effect also has a positive element.

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@ManciSiya @BuddyWells1 These aren't social grants, Mike. These are the receipts of provinces from the national fiscus (called grant funding in Government Expenditure). @BuddyWells1 I agree with you partly, Government should allocate more funding to provinces AND municipalities.

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@ManciSiya @BuddyWells1 Outside of Gauteng and KZN, the Eastern Cape and Limpopo receives the higheste amounts of grants. Now adjust that on a per capita basis, and it will be clear that in per capita terms, those two provinces receive significantly more funding from the fiscus than any others.

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@eNCA Which 120? Could you give us the list?

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@Finnthehuman80 @AfrikanersVirSA Publieke denkleier is 'n oksimoron, soos die lewende dooie wat hy is.

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@CoruscaKhaya It's a silly statement from @Dawie_Roodt. The top 50 SOEs/SOCs and the 8 Metros already cover the total R1,36 trillion wage bill of consolidated government. Which means all other munis and national departments and SOEs/SOCs are generating "pure surplus".

It's a kak argument.