The electricity crisis

Apart from the hike in the petrol price really bugging me at the moment, this electricity thing is just getting ridiculous now.

We had a power failure this morning. Even though it only lasted half an hour, we had to turn customers away because we couldn't check up-to-date prices of books and couldn't use the credit card machines. We all sat in the front reading the paper. Imagine how it was like for those people in Bedfordview who didn't have electricity for 3 days. I was checking out "The Grape Escape" last week, and this poor dude who was trying to make wine couldn't because of a power failure. This really affects everyone!

And then (I feel) they still have the cheek to tell us to save electricity. Of course it's good to save. But we always put off unnecessary lights, we don't even have a heater, put off all unnecessary appliances... What more can we do?

And now they wanna push up the electricity price by 16%... The worst is, we can't do anything about it. We must just sit and accept all of this because no matter how much we complain, kick, scream, moan etc, Eskom will unfortunately always be in our lives.