Power cuts are adding to problems in South Africa during social restrictions
JOHANNESBURG - Keitumetse Modise was already struggling to juggle her appointments as a freelance beautician while home-schooling her daughter during South Africa’s nearly four-month-old COVID-19 lockdown. The last thing she needed was the lights going out.
Since last week however, with restrictions easing and businesses cautiously reopening, planned blackouts - known locally as loadshedding - are back and with them the frustration of unstable internet, lost revenue and disrupted schedules. After nearly four months without nationwide outages, Eskom conducted a fresh round in July, with a spokesman saying “it would be naive to think we are done.”
Schools reopened for some year groups but millions of children are still trying to follow lessons from home.
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