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Verb: To normalise one's failures so that others accept them without question.
A verbification of the name of the state owned electricity utility company that supplies all of South Africa with electricity but has failed to accommodate for growing infrastructure to the point that daily scheduled outages have been accepted as a normal part of life since January 2008.
Sarah: "You have to wait 3 weeks for a response from them? Why so long?"
Busiswe: "It's not that long. You just need to be patient."
Sarah: "No. That's a long time. Don't let them Eskom their service delivery."
The worst electricity company in the entire world. Situated in South Africa. The only company in the world whose adverts request consumers to actually use LESS of their product.
They have just increased their tariffs by 34%! They cause continuous blackouts, and their biggest stroke of genius yet has been the "load shedding" system in which they switched off the power to some areas on purpose (and never kept to their own load shedding schedule anyway) and eventually led to one substation in Kempton Park blowing up because it was never designed to be switched on and off repeatedly.
They have no clue as to how their own infrastructure works, because they have fired all of their experienced white engineers to replace them with inexperienced affirmative action employees who would take years to learn how to do the job properly even if Eskom management could be bothered to train them.
Thanks to their bungling, the few power stations that do actually work properly can't be run at full capacity because the national grid is in such a shocking state of disrepair. Koeberg nuclear power station is never running more than tree of it's four reactors at any one time and almost all of their profit goes into Mercs, BMWs and 400% bonuses for their managers rather than new infrastructure.
A Metallica concert in Cape Town started an hour late because of a blackout. The crowd started chanting "Eskom! Eskom! Eskom!"
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the state-owned electricity company in South Africa that used to be the best that ever was, but thanks to a stroke of genius to "save electricity" and fire all their experienced workers all in the span of January of 2008, they managed to invent load-shedding and create adverts for people to use less of their product.
i don't even know what else to put here, cuz they've got so much drama, but all i can say is now the people are mad, the workers are mad, the substations are blowing up, the machinery's being destroyed, the workers demand raises, and we're still sitting in the dark, waiting for the lights to go on so that i can finish my homework.
thanks, Eskom, for making me fall farther behind.
"you can always rely on Eskom to turn off the lights so you don't have to!" - said no one ever
Brain dead people with them HOESSSS!!!!!
Damn bruskie. Check out ESP Eskom stage 4 loadshedding today.
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A lousy service provider that doesn't give anything right.
Eskom: personification of Satan's deviousness
Eskom:Load Shedding, baby!
Eishkom: It's broken
Eskommit(Afrikaans), Dit is domb
iEskomi(Xhosa), Thina abantu ababi
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