Ladismith case study: This is what grid failure looks like

How does a community survive almost two weeks without electricity? Well, it takes government-supplied generators (lots of them), 5,000 food parcels and lots of patience for those who have not had their early-morning coffee. For residents of Ladismith in the Western Cape, grid failure became a r...

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