Just over a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the move to Alert Level 1 and an easing of lockdown restrictions, Eskom announced thereād be load shedding – with Stage 2 being implemented over the weekend.
Residents who spoke to us about this felt like they had just been given some reprieve, only to have to worry about being in the dark again.
While one felt that lockdown restrictions and load shedding were ways of ācontrolling the masses”, another said the upcoming local election “should be a guide to getting the big problem fixedā.
Hereās what residents had to say about the implementation of load shedding and how this affected their confidence in national government and who they would vote for in the upcoming municipal election.