LOAD SHEDDING, UNSURPRISINGLY, IS THE 2022 South African ‘word of the year’ announced by the Pan South African Language Board in collaboration with Focal Points, a media research company.
Load shedding, a term for rolling blackouts, has been a regular feature of South African life since 2015, and the latest statutory assessment of the power system showed that South Africa's embattled state-owned utility, Eskom, will be unable to meet the electricity needs of the country for the next five years.
South Africa has experienced 2,409 cumulative hours of load shedding by November, according to data from EskomSePush, a load shedding app in the country. September broke the record for scheduled outages in a month, amounting to 570 hours.
” People feel lost when there's no power. – Rui Miranda, owner of Old Charlie's Tobacconist
EskomSePush, a load shedding app in the country. September broke the record for scheduled outages in a month, amounting to
