At least the cellular network is fairly robust. The tower in your immediate area may go down during loadshedding, but your wireless router and phone will connect to another one close by. All my sisters have UPS's on their routers or rechargeable ones.
I visited my family for 3 weeks in November and December. Sometimes it is quite the adventure to get ready for loadshedding. But it is amazing how adaptable people are. If the power goes at 8pm, you just heard an army of generators being turned on. But at the price of gas, you cannot just run the generator all the time.
Another problem is, many electric items aren't exactly designed to be turned on and off 3 times a day. People's refrigerators, hot water heaters and such are starting to fail. The same goes for the power grid, transformers and substations all over the place are exploding, compounding the issues.
The deep state there has destroyed South African Airlines through corruption, they destroyed transnet, they are well on their way to destroy Eskom. There isn't much else left to destroy. I'm waiting for them to start nationalizing the mines again and suck the lifeblood out of that also.
I was blessed to escape back in 1997, and come to the US LEGALLY. Of course I miss my family terribly, but even with all the problems here in the US, life is infinitely better. There is a reason people from all over the world are trying to get in by whatever means.
From the outside looking in it appears like a classic example of small minded, corrupt politicians exploiting their citizens for personal gain. The only thing they are competent at is stoking division to get elected. But, they don’t care about anyone of any skin color.
What they don’t get is they would personally benefit from unleashing their country’s potential. But, they are convinced their ownly way to maintain power is by keeping the country in chaos and decline.
Hope your okay u/purkiss80/
I don’t know how you keep transmitting with the conditions you’re up against. I wish I could do more than offer prayers.
At least the cellular network is fairly robust. The tower in your immediate area may go down during loadshedding, but your wireless router and phone will connect to another one close by. All my sisters have UPS's on their routers or rechargeable ones.
I visited my family for 3 weeks in November and December. Sometimes it is quite the adventure to get ready for loadshedding. But it is amazing how adaptable people are. If the power goes at 8pm, you just heard an army of generators being turned on. But at the price of gas, you cannot just run the generator all the time.
Another problem is, many electric items aren't exactly designed to be turned on and off 3 times a day. People's refrigerators, hot water heaters and such are starting to fail. The same goes for the power grid, transformers and substations all over the place are exploding, compounding the issues.
The deep state there has destroyed South African Airlines through corruption, they destroyed transnet, they are well on their way to destroy Eskom. There isn't much else left to destroy. I'm waiting for them to start nationalizing the mines again and suck the lifeblood out of that also.
I was blessed to escape back in 1997, and come to the US LEGALLY. Of course I miss my family terribly, but even with all the problems here in the US, life is infinitely better. There is a reason people from all over the world are trying to get in by whatever means.
From the outside looking in it appears like a classic example of small minded, corrupt politicians exploiting their citizens for personal gain. The only thing they are competent at is stoking division to get elected. But, they don’t care about anyone of any skin color.
What they don’t get is they would personally benefit from unleashing their country’s potential. But, they are convinced their ownly way to maintain power is by keeping the country in chaos and decline.