Power outages in South Africa get worse

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, has announced that there will be more scheduled power outages — known as “load shedding” — in June, July and August. That’s when South Africa is in its dark, winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. Host Jason Margolis speaks with Janet Heard, managing editor of South Africa’s The Daily Maverick, about how people will cope.

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