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by happymellon 98 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

Not OP but it's because there are rolling blackouts.

> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

Ability to afford your own solar. A lot of South Africans can't, and with prices increasing 100x over the past 20 years, it makes it difficult to get out of that poverty.