I wonder if your readers, my fellow South Africans, have ever wondered why people went to bed with the fowls and rose with the crowing cockerel? Well now, in the year 2023, we have the explanation courtesy of Eskom – our powerless utility company. There is pretty much nothing that one can do when the sun goes down and the world is cloaked in comforting darkness and cold illuminating moonlight.
Fortunately for our forebears in their time, most of their world functioned on relatively low technology items in comparison to ours. By this I mean they were reliant on paraffin driven refrigerators, stoves and lamps, for lighting the houses. How far we have come since those simple days, only to be pushed back to enduring the privation of no electricity and wondering what went wrong with our world.
Why should the place be falling down around us at such a speed? What have we done to deserve this state of affairs and how do ‘management’ propose they will fix now something that should have been fixed five years ago? And we must believe them? I see a state of collapse more on the cards than a state of disaster. I just hope I am wrong. Have a pleasant evening now y’all.
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