South Africa’s escalating energy crisis has led to a national state of disaster declared by the president, yet no truly convincing plans have been made to move the country out of severe rolling blackouts. Elna Schütz explains what life with frequent “load-shedding,” or rolling power cuts, is like in Johannesburg and Soweto.
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