Unlike most South Africans (or at least that's how it seems sometimes) I am trying to remain positive about the electricity crisis facing this country.
I've learnt a ton about batteries, chargers, invertors, generators and solar panels - and learnt to better appreciate cheaply available electricity when we have it.
I have been accused of being naive overly optimistic in the past, but there is no point in gloom and doom - the damage is done, and this is a problem individual South Africans actually can influence and do something about (unlike a few other issues we face). Sometimes you need a greater perspective - this is not a problem unique to this country.
I use the unplanned downtime to have candle-lit dinners with my family, family bath times take on a whole new dimension, and ditching the PC / TV for awhile is surprisingly refreshing :-)
Links:
- Plenty of local bloggers talking about Eskom
- Google Trends shows the huge recent Eskom search spike (and shows how Zuma isn't nearly as topical as Eskom right now when you compare trend searches - at least locally).
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