WATCH | 'It [ LoadShedding] is a very negative aspect of business and it affects everyone.'
Manfred Weber, who qualified as a hairdresser in the late 1950s, sat in a white barber chair at his salon in Linden, Johannesburg, on Monday as the country braced itself for yet another day of rolling blackouts.Even though he still uses an old rotary-dial telephone and an even older cash register, there is no escaping reality when Eskom decides to hit the switch. Manfred Weber cuts a client's hair at his salon in Linden, Johannesburg.
"People want to look nice on weekends, but they can't because there is no electricity," he said, adding that most of his clients were"trained" to check the load-shedding schedules before heading to his salon. "The funny thing is, they are very understanding - because they are in the same situation. They come to hope that you have power!"
Weber has resorted to using old-fashioned "solar power" to cope with the blackouts. When the weather is good but the power is out, he encourages his clients to sit in the sun to dry their hair. "We still do some of the old hairstyles, so we will put the rollers in and then the ladies will sit outside in the sun for their hair to dry. There is so much sun in this country - I mean, it's more reliable than Eskom!"
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