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Clean cooking fuels are finally being taken seriously, gaining airtime at last year’s UN climate change conference, COP28. (Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Life without power: How South Africans are coping

Citizens are finding ways to survive during extended blackouts but this comes at a cost

Lesego Chepape

A general view shows trails of lights from passing vehicles in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, which is submerged in darkness due to load-shedding

ANDRE DE RUYTER

South Africa edges closer towards stage eight load-shedding

Eskom loses half of its power-generating capacity, opening risks for longer cuts which will entail more than half the day with no electricity

Mandisa Makgakga
Ozayr Patel