As much as it shouldn’t be, having constant electricity is a win for South Africa. South Africa has had no load shedding for 100 days.
What a strategy – make electricity so expensive that you sell less of it so you have more of it. I jest.
Yes, it may be getting pricier but it’s also far more available now than most of the time in the last couple of years. On the level of paying for it, sure it sucks. There’s no way around that. Maybe in time, it will become cheap again. That seems unlikely, but we also thought it was unlikely that load shedding could be curbed so quickly…and without burning the world’s diesel supply.
Turns out we could, and we did. Even better, as a result, Bank of America chimed in and believes we can have 2% GDP growth if we can keep it up. Somewhat surprisingly, I actually have confidence that we can keep it up. Don’t ask me why. Maybe I’m hopeful. Maybe I just like my GDP like I like my milk. Whatever it is, it just feels like we’re finding the right direction. We don’t really know how our phones work. We just know that when they’re on and doing things, they’re working.
Better we sit in a space where we have our electricity back than no electricity at all. There are people who are responsible for us being in this favourable position. It may not be more favourable than what could have been had we not stuffed the power stations up but hey, guess what… we did. While the rest of us sit around moaning about it, somebody has to step up and fix it and we should be glad that somebody did.
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