Self-inflicted load shedding brings you to tears

There is only thing worse than load shedding and that’s self-inflicted load shedding.
Unless you have mastered the art of electricity theft through an illegal connection or two, lesser mortals have to pay for power.
But you to have to buy wisely. Don’t go out on the 31st of the month and buy R300 of electricity.
By then, because of your purchases throughout the month, you have been pushed into the top bracket, which gives you less watts for more Rands.
Rather wait for the first of the month when the system is ‘re-set’ and you start again at the cheapest rate.
However, this may mean employing drastic measures to ensure that the power lasts until after the midnight hour and the new month’s starts. This may mean you having a cold bath, reading (remember that?) by candlelight and, horror of horrors, not charging your cellphone.
And there is another problem. After desperately waiting for the next day to buy ‘cheaper power’ you may still be disappointed.
You see the municipal vendors (not Zulus) assigned to sell municipal electricity also ‘run out of gas’ to use the local parlance.
In other words, the vendors buy x amount of power from the municipality and when this is used up, bad luck for you the customer.
“You must wait until I buy again which could be Tuesday,” said one stony-faced café owner.
So much for the customer being king.
But wait, there is a solution.
If you are tech savvy buy online. You can use your cellphone, tablet, PC whatever.
All you have to do is register with WireIT at https://www.wireit.co.za.
From there, as long as you are registered for online banking, you can buy power without leaving home.
The 20 digit number you plug into your meter is simply sent to your cellphone. Easy peasy and you will never run of ‘da gas’.