2022 sal bekend staan as die ergste jaar nog vir geskeduleerde kragonderbrekings deur die monopolie-energienuts\u00admaatskappy, Eskom. Meer as 100 dae beurtkrag het die ekonomie al gekniehalter, en in alle waarskynlikheid gaan hierdie trae stand van sake nog lank voortduur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beurtkrag het verlede week weer eens sy lelike kloue ingeslaan en Sondagoggend het die land wakker geword met die skoknuus: die eens ondenkbare het die tweede keer vanjaar gebeur \u2013 Eskom het fase 6-beurtkrag aangekondig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groot organisasies en korporasies voel reeds die knyp in hul begroting weens die gebruik van kragopwekkers gedurende beurtkrag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit laat \u2019n mens wonder hoe kleiner sakeondernemings die mas gedurende di\u00e9 deurlopende duisternis opkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paarl Post<\/span> het by sommige sakeondernemings aangeklop om te hoor hoe hulle in di\u00e9 moeilike omstandighede oorleef:.<\/span> Polarama Cash & Carry is \u2019n groothandelaar in kruideniersware in Klippiesdal, Paarl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns deure staan danksy genade al die afgelope 33 jaar oop, maar ons hou net-net kop bo water,\u201d s\u00ea Majiet Gaffoor, een van die mede-eienaars van Polarama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeurtkrag is \u2019n groot kopseer vir almal, maar nog meer vir sakeondernemings, omdat ons \u2019n diens moet lewer. Die teenvoeter bly die noodsaaklikheid van \u2019n kragopwekker wat die deure moet oophou, maar die brandstofprys, inflasie en rentekoers is die ergste nog!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gaffoor vertel van bykomende uitgawes, buiten peperduur kragopwekking. \u201cOns toerusting bly gedurig in die slag. Rekenaars, skerms, ons rekenaarbediener (server<\/span>) en ander toerusting het al opgepak. Dan is daar nog verdere uitgawes om die herstelwerk te dek. Bykomende kommer is om eise by die versekeraar in te dien, en met elke eis wat uitbetaal word, word die premies ook al hoe ho\u00ebr.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nie net is dit \u2019n gesukkel as gevolg van die ekonomie wat swaar trek nie, maar ook weens werkloosheid en die publiek se al meer beperkte besteebare inkomste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSommige broodnodige kosprodukte word al hoe meer as luukshede beskou, omdat mense sulke streng besparings moet toepas. Talle ondernemings moet later personeel verminder, maar ons is gelukkig nog nie daar nie. Ons is baie besorg oor ons personeel, maar \u2019n mens weet nooit of dit mettertyd daar\u00adtoe sal lei nie, en dan moet moei\u00adlike besluite geneem word.\u201d.<\/span> Die plaaslike videowinkel, Vee\u2019s Video, is n\u00f3g \u2019n kleinonderneming wat swaartrek as gevolg van beurtkrag wat vir weke aaneen ingestel word. Volgens Elize Swanepoel, wat by Vee\u2019s Video werk, kan hulle nie oop bly wanneer beurtkrag toegepas word nie. Toe fase-6-beurtkrag die afgelope Sondag ingestel is, kon die winkel sy deure vir slegs vier ure oophou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Videowinkels soos Vee\u2019s Video trek reeds swaar omdat mense nou flieks gratis kan aflaai. Die pandemie het di\u00e9 winkel, asook soortgelyke ondernemings, ook \u2019n verdere knak gegee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit is regtig skrikwekkend wat die beurtkrag aan ons en baie ander kleinondernemings doen. Dit is nie almal wat \u2019n kragopwekker kan bekostig nie. Die finansi\u00eble impak as gevolg van beurtkrag is baie negatief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns het in die verlede oop gebly, maar dan kom mense in met vals identifikasie en s\u00ea hulle is op die rekenaarstelsel, dan is dit nie so nie. Di\u00e9 mense neem dan tot ses flieks uit, en jy kry dit nooit terug nie of jy kry dit n\u00e1 ses maande eers weer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swanepoel bak ook koek by haar huis vir Woeker en Woel as \u2019n ekstra inkomste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMet die gebak wat ek vir Woeker en Woel doen, moet ek maar begin wanneer die krag aan is as ek enigsins verkope wil h\u00ea.\u201d.<\/span> Vir kleiner wynprodusente is dit \u2019n nagmerrie aan die broei, met die parsseisoen wat slegs enkele maande weg is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary-Lou Nash van Black Pearl Vineyards aan die voet van die Paarlberg s\u00ea sy sidder om te dink hoe sy haar onderneming met sulke vernietigende kragbeurte gaan bedryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGroter wynmaatskappye het die afgelope jare honderdduisende rande aan alternatiewe kragopwekking bestee, soos sonpaneelstelsels, maar vir die kleiner produsent is die uitgawe hieraan net nie moontlik nie, veral nie in die nadraai van die Covid-19-pandemie nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns gaan op ons knie\u00eb wees as hierdie situasie in Januarie sou voortduur. Verkoeling is \u2019n prioriteit in die vervaardiging van wyn, net soos die basiese toerusting vir pars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTans bottel ek, en wat gewoonlik \u2019n drie uur lange taak moet wees, eindig in \u2019n dag lange taak \u2013 soms langer.\u201d.<\/span> Dirk Breytenbach, voorsitter van die Drakenstein-sakekamer, beaam die donker vooruitsigte, wat ook \u2019n negatiewe invloed op die verbruiker gaan h\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie huidige \u2018pandemie\u2019 van gebrek aan voldoende kragvoorsiening in SA het nou \u2019n kantelpunt bereik en verskonings deur Eskom is net nie meer aanvaarbaar nie. Die situasie is uiters frustrerend vir die gasvryheidsbedryf en veral kleinsake wat nie oor die nodige geld en infrastruktuur beskik om alternatiewe in plek te stel om die gereelde en ontydige tekorte te bowe te kom nie. Dit skaad produktiwiteit en voorspel niks goeds vir die ekonomiese welsyn van gemeenskappe en SA as geheel nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2019n Politieke oplossing om Eskom reg te ruk is ook nie meer moontlik in die huidige chaotiese politieke klimaat nie en die enigste werkbare alter\u00adnatief blyk nou om private hernubare bronne soos sonkrag onverwyld in plek te stel. Plaas\u00adlik word reeds moeite gedoen om besighede te speen van afhank\u00adlikheid van die regering en instansies onder staatsbeheer, wat uiters swak bestuur word. 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