i'm happy to say to the country as i stand before you today the energy availability effect of eskom has breached the 70% mark. so, at 70.78 — that's significant. the last time we achieved this was in august 2021. but many people are sceptical. they believe the current reprieve from rolling blackouts is a campaign gimmick by the governing anc to get votes. i do think it might be a ploy for the votes because it is odd that the timing as well of the load shedding. we had had problems before, but now all of a sudden it's better. i think once the elections come, we will see if that was the true standard of our electricity or is itjust a ploy? i live in constant fear of when it's coming back and what will that mean for us. because now everything is sort of back to normal—ish. like everybody else in south africa, it . is...affected us so badly. i mean, we had to lose many stuff around it, l but we still have hope that one day it will get better here. - the impact of the power cuts have been felt across the board, including massive job losses, and in some cases it has become a matter of lif