While politicians meet (again) to try to sort out the mess and Eskom (again and again) announces yet more loadshedding, desperation has become the order of the day. YouMagazine speaks to people forced to their knees by the crisis facing the country.
Ramped-up rolling blackouts aren’t only crippling small business owners, there’s also the fear of theft and burglary during power outages and damage to equipment when the voltage spikes as the power comes back on.
“Loadshedding has really broken our back,” Ebrahim tells YOU. “People avoid areas where there’s loadshedding or reschedule their day according to the loadshedding schedule, and it’s drawn business away.” “Many of our customers have been pleading with us to keep operating. If my business had to survive on loyalty and sentiment, I’d open 24 hours a day.”Six months after starting a promising business, S’busisiwe has closed shop. “Mentally and physically, I’m finished,” she says. S’busisiwe , from Kroonstad in the Free State, has been run ragged trying to keep her business, Buska Foods, afloat.
She’s trying desperately to make a living for herself with her two hustles but it’s almost impossible, the 33-year-old from Khayelitsha, Cape Town, says.In December, when parts of the country were plunged into darkness for up to 10 hours at a time, Nolitha worked around the clock to meet the demands of clients at her clothing business.
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