In his 1845 poem The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe wrote: Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The South African interpretation of this is undoubtedly not what Poe had in mind. In 2015, South Africa experienced an estimated 83.5 days of load shedding.
Early indications suggest that this year we have beaten that number. A status report from embattled power utility Eskom shows that we are on code red.
Menacingly, this is
