wiseman makabongwe bambata runs an upholstery business.nside your business, because i want to see how many machines use electricity. but when the power is off, so it is a is off, so is his electric sewing machine. which of your machines need electricity? it is the compressor and the two sewing machines. so, one of your colleagues is on the sewing machine, this cannot work when you have a power cut. i cannot go without power. he can't meet orders, he loses business. this load shedding is affecting us a lot. so, if we close, there are a lot of people, i've got four people working here, so then, i have to... you'd have to let them go? i'd have to let them go, because there will be no job if this load shedding thing is going on. are all of your fellow shop owners, business owners, are they experiencing the same thing? i think that they experience the same thing as well. what about other basic services like water, sanitation, sewage... do you have these services? this is what our government promised us from 1994, that it's going to provide for