South Africa nears an ignoble record: 100 days of blackouts

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One hundred days of almost constant load-shedding

South Africa is nearing 100 consecutive days of rolling blackouts, the longest stretch yet, with more to come as its electricity crisis deepens.

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the state-owned company that produces almost all the electricity in Africa’s most industrialized economy, has imposed blackouts daily since Oct. 31, making Monday the 99th straight day of outages, according to Bloomberg calculations.
 
Jefferson D'Arcy said:
Pleased you've use the correct terminology of 'blackouts'.

'ANC blackouts' also acceptable. So-called load-shedding implies that the electricity consumers, the victims of this crime and ineptitude are to blame.
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No, it's actually incorrect. 100 Days of "blackouts" would imply we had a grid collapse and the power is still off.

The correct terminology is "rolling-blackouts". I see IOL keeps on making the same mistake as well.

It is used correctly in Jan's article though. Probably just shortened for brevity in the thread title.
 
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Its a permanent institution now. Just like all other failed African countries, which only have a few hours of electricity per day, South Africa is now one of them. The ANC took one of the strongest countries in the world and turned it into a dump in 29 years.
 
South Africa is nearing 100 consecutive days of rolling blackouts, the longest stretch yet, with more to come as its electricity crisis deepens.

Ok, so what is being done to fix it?
 
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