As soon as the power goes off and the traffic lights are out, homeless men sporting bright-green high-visibility vests emerge apparently from nowhere and start directing the cars at a busy Johannesburg intersection. | News24_Business
South Africa is buckling under unprecedented power cuts, which are crippling everything from manufacturing to the flow of traffic.Ordinarily, when stop lights go out, the police come and direct the traffic at city crossroads.
"Without us being around here it is causing a couple of accidents," Aubrey Ndlovu, a 31-year-old migrant from Zimbabwe, told AFP at an intersection in the affluent northern suburb of Bryanston. They are"doing a commendable job," he said, while emphasising that the city was not liable for any accidents that might occur under their watch.
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