Eskom implemented stage 6 load-shedding for the first time since 2019 in June 2022. Since then South Africans have had to adapt and organise their lives around load-shedding, which in the past year was an almost daily occurrence.

This explains why, after a month and two days of no load-shedding, we still cannot shake the anxiety that any moment the EskomSePush app will light up to tell us the lights are going off again...

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