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by tibbydudeza 2136 days ago
We been having load shedding for a few years now in South Africa due to tender corruption , aging and badly maintained coal fired fleet and the late commissioning of new power stations.

Outages are at least planned and last about 2 and half hours every day for each area so we learned to cope plan our lives around it.

Solar power hot water/gas cooking appliance/DC battery backup system for the Fibre OTN box and Wireless router and wireless AP and I can continue to work.