Eskom’s debt has long been described as the biggest risk to South Africa’s economy. The power utility remains beleaguered rolling electricity cuts that remain a crippling reality were again announced just hours after Parliament concluded the Public Enterprises budget vote debate.
Back in late March 2019 the power utility couldn’t meet its liabilities and, to avoid a default, the government scurried to secure a R3-billion short-term commercial loan.
An Eskom default would have required the immediate repayment of R281-billion backed by government guarantees. But that kind of money simply is not available in the public purse.
Rolling Stone Menu 20 Overlooked Bob Dylan Classics
Lesser-known tracks that deserve places in the pantheon
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“You’re No Good” ( “Going, Going, Gone” (
One of his last great studio performances with the Band and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (
Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV, drinking a beer. Ah, the Seventies.
“Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)” (
Street Legal, 1978)
A few beers later, here he is at the end of
Street Legal, with his final words before collapsing into the Christian years and his Eighties malaise. He asks the same question he used to ask Sweet Marie, but this is definitely the sound of a man on the brink of a cosmic breakdown.
Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday
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Oops! I was so much older then / I m younger than that now.
Bob Dylan sang those wise words at the tender age of 23, on his track My Back Pages.
As he reaches his 80th birthday on Monday, we ve decided to ignore the advice of the famous Dylan documentary Don t Look Back and celebrate the life and career of the US singer-songwriter.
Be warned though before we get started, this list is about as long and exhaustive as some of the verses on his last album.
10 min read From The Basement Tapes to Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan superfan Ian OâRiordan ranks the singerâs studio albums
He asked me to check out the used record stores and see had they any early Dylan on vinyl. This was his idea for a cheap Christmas present and sometime around that December of 1991, while in college in the US, I bought the self-titled debut album Bob Dylan as a gift for my younger brother.
So itâs his fault, really, because that first influence started something still not easily explained: from there I borrowed, or else stole, whatever other Dylan albums he had at the time, some on cassette such as Highway 61 Revisited, others such as Desire on vinyl, and after lifting too his copy of Robert Sheltonâs biography, No Direction Home, thereâs been no looking back.