overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it is time to judge how the anc is doing. for too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain. a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy, but right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off. but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. with load shedding now in place, and the different stages instead of reducing they are actually
average rainfall, so we haven t been getting the winter rain that we need to fill our dams, so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything for the summer. so, we have become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, and thinking that this sounds like a nightmare scenario. you have a nightmare scenario. you have a long term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we onl had immediate power problem. - only had this level of load shedding from about january only had this level of load shedding from aboutjanuary or february. so, we have managed to survive this season, but if this happens next year, where we have another dry winter, and we have another dry winter, and we have another dry winter, and we have stayed six load shedding, which is where we are 11 hours a day out, i don t know how we will do it. honestly. know how we will do it. honestly- honestly. here is why irrigation honestly. here