TOBY SHAPSHAK: SA’s Lord of the Flies, courtesy of Eskom
The cost just of operating during load-shedding is enough to close down a small business
07 July 2022 - 05:00
Luckily my small business’s landlord has a generator. A big one.
Whenever #loadshitting hits, there is that 30-second silence and darkness until the generator kicks in. You seem to hear the generator, but it’s the one at the next-door offices in Craighall. We can hear the neighbour’s generator, but not our building’s. But, like all the strangeness of our Eskom-influenced lives, there is a symmetry to it. The generators, clearly automated, take roughly the same time to start up...
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