SA's future shrouded in darkness

[richjdavies]

...still got some incandescents here e.g. my bathroom. 100W if I eyeball it right (I'm not footing the bill on that...if I was that thing would be in the dustbin already)

Ahh right. I'm in Cape Town (despite being British) and I've still got incandescents (again landlord including electricity, otherwise they'd be gone!). I think you may be thinking too much about your own experiences -- where you yourself replaced all your bulbs -- not the general reality.

Ultimately you get energy wasters in both countries and people in general in the UK spend much less as a % of earnings on electricity than in SA (because of gas used for heating/cooking, and because they earn much more - despite higher R£/kwh prices)

I know, I recently went and put some incandescents back in because I was selling a house, and some energy savers are just too slow to light up/ugly.