Rolling blackouts have started to negatively affect South Africans and daily operations in the country, and the least one can do is prepare themselves for the next load-shedding schedule.
South African citizens are currently at their last nerve due to the rolling blackouts and longer hours without electricity and some parts of the country being affected in means of water or even a few more hours than the rest.
Businesses are losing money every minute some have started to close down due to load-shedding. Various services are also not being provided to citizens due to load-shedding.
Over 100 villages in Limpopo have no water because the boreholes used in these villages rely on electricity to operate and every time the power cuts residents are left without water.
“As scholars the inconvenience of not having water and electricity is over baring because it is starting to become a bit difficult to bath with cold water when preparing to go to school” says 19-year old Thato a resident in Limpopo.
The Economic Freedom Fighters released a media statement calling out the Eskom board for its incompetence and being the main reason South Africans are left in the dark for hours.
“The incompetence and arrogance of Eskom executives has plunged South Africa into a perpetual and unwarranted darkness that is killing businesses and live viewers” stated the report.
Some parts of Johannesburg residents have power-cuts for over six hours instead of four hours like the rest of the country.
City of Johannesburg Ward 134 Councilor, Devon Steenkamp says the reason behind these longer power-cuts in parts of Johannesburg is due to shortage of Eskom staff to manually put on the switches for the residents.
Loadshedding has been inconveniencing so many South Africans more especially the working class and businesses at large. Getting to work during peak hours is a struggle because the robots are not working leading to workers getting to their designated destinations late.
We arrive late at work and we won’t get paid for that. How are we going to get our bonuses if things are like this?” commented a commuter stuck in traffic.
“I’m on my way final warning at work because of late coming, and I’m still stuck in traffic”.
