The unprecedented load-shedding in the past week is crippling businesses and putting workers' incomes at risk, particularly those at small firms battling to stay open.

Gerhard Papenfus, CEO of the National Employers' Association of SA (Neasa), which has 8,000 members, said this week the effect of load-shedding on his members was devastating...

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