This year alone, the hours of power cuts across the country are equivalent to four full months.
According to the app that monitors electricity cuts, EskomSePush, that is 200% worse than any other year.These stations generate little more than half their capacity - as demand for power consistently outstrips supply.
In a country with some of the highest inner-city crime rates in the world, night-time power cuts have been detrimental to public safety."It's dark and we've got more robberies that are happening, more burglaries that are happening. "So now load-shedding comes in and it's just like 50% harder all of a sudden," says Happy Raphela, a community patroller in Alexandra - one of Johannesburg's more dangerous townships.Armed with only torches and walkie-talkies, they go street by street responding to complaints from residents.
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