according to anne paterson, robert's wife and business partner, many farmers are struggling.housands of jobs, needs reliable power. we farm in a fairly good and affluent area, but other parts of the western cape and smaller farms who don't have the access to capital or access to financing at short notice would not have been able to buy generators on the hop and they would have lost their crops. we know of a couple of people that have actually lost their farms or have had to lease their farms orjust walk away from their farms. and you do not know how long this load—shedding challenge is going to last. exactly. we get promised that they're going to sort it out, but yet it just seems to be all talk and no action. i think, from a mental point of view and from your psychic, we just don't know what the future holds. do you invest in your business? what do you do? we just don't know what the endgame is going to be. the thing is, if you feel like that, your neighbours feel like that, other businesspeople across this country feel like that, that's a catastrophe for the south african e