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South Africa’s Electricity Crisis – Update

My South Africa’s Electricity Crisis post has turned out to be one of the more popular ones on this site, so with there being significant developments in the ongoing saga, I thought I’d update you, the 6000 miles… reading public, with the latest news. As from Monday, we now have pre-emptive load shedding. Which means [...]

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Out of the frying pan

Once again, Eskom is to blame. Newlands got load-shod mid-afternoon and the traffic lights on the M3 never really recovered. It was all a bit of a mess and I joined the queue by the Aquarium. At this point, anyone that knows Cape Town thinks I’m lying. I wish I was. But no, my journey home from [...]

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