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There was a Facebook post reporting President Cyril Ramaphosa as saying he was shocked by the load-shedding South Africans have had to endure this week.
A smart-Alec apparently came back with this response: you need electricity to be shocked. Yes, it’s funny and the people sitting in the candlelit restaurant in Paternoster, where I was eating cold soup, laughed when someone shared it.
It wasn’t funny though. Never before has the effect of load-shedding on a micro economy been more apparent.