The electricity supply has remained uninterrupted since March, leaving people wondering what has changed.
It’s a fresh winter’s day in Johannesburg, with a clear blue sky reflecting on the bustling township of Alexandra, or Alex as it’s more often known in South Africa.
While some of her patrons deliver crates of alcohol and others are preparing meat on a hotplate, Sizeka Rashamosa stands in her restaurant. A bunch of young males are seated at a sun-drenched table.
It’s a far cry from when we first met in March of last year, during the height of South Africa’s power crisis and frequent load-shedding, the official term for scheduled power outages.Ms. Rashamosa had only one customer and very little electricity at the time. This reflects the overall economic impact.”Power is everything,” she declared at the time. “I’m quite stressed. We don’t have money since the electricity is out; as you can see, it is dark. I doubt I’ll be able to survive in my business. We will have to close after 25 years. It is dreadful.However, things are looking up now that she has a few minutes to converse.”The load-shedding is much better now,” she reports. “You can see, there is electricity.
