For businesses and families the continual interruptions of load-shedding have become a nightmare.

Yet government programmes seem exclusively focused on systemic solutions that will only take effect in a year or more. They offer virtually no immediate relief for producers and communities, even though a lot could be done to minimise the hit to the economy and society...

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