I was sitting in peak-hour traffic on the corner of Jan Smuts Avenue and Bompas Road in Joburg, with traffic inching forward. We were in the middle of yet another power cut, what we euphemistically and wrongly call load-shedding, and the economy was losing millions with every minute we were sitting there.

If you listened carefully, you could even hear the depressing sound of businesses closing their doors and workers losing their jobs...

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