It’s not the best and brightest who will prosper, but those who can provide the mere basics: electricity, writes shapshak.
Whenever #loadshitting hits, there is that 30-second silence and darkness until the generator kicks in. You seem to hear the generator, but it’s the one at the next-door offices in Craighall. We can hear the neighbour’s generator, but not our building’s.
But, like all the strangeness of our Eskom-influenced lives, there is a symmetry to it. The generators, clearly automated, take roughly the same time to start up...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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