South Africa's monopoly electricity supply utility, Eskom, has seemingly run out of capacity and is imposing what it calls “load shedding”. Err.. blackouts. The causes of this include:
This load shedding is done in stages. Stage 1 is where they shed 1000 MW. Stage 2 is 2000 MW and so on to Stage 4 which, you guessed it is the Armageddon-like 4000 MW.
The jokes started when Stage 4 was reached, and people wondered what would happen at Stage 5. But no sooner had the unthinkable been joked about, when Eskom played a trick on the public.
https://twitter.com/nexus_gene/status/1107997100015603712
Yes, they started implementing Stages 5 & 6.
https://twitter.com/Saagir12/status/1108000855792455680
Another variant of this was:
https://twitter.com/kitty46kat/status/1108048775245955073
But how would you light them anyway?
https://twitter.com/thedarrenmaule/status/1108071457484140545
Still, people still take naughty selfies:
https://twitter.com/keenanwradio/status/1108032294198104064
. . . and can still go out and have fun no matter what Stage we get to:
https://twitter.com/keenanwradio/status/1108032294198104064
But that might not work:
https://twitter.com/Siya020402/status/1108057630084423680
And who would you have fun with?
https://twitter.com/TheOpinion8d1/status/1108836740532523009
Then Eskom really gets down to business:
https://twitter.com/LiciousRyan1/status/1108040044412063745
Things turn uglier:
https://twitter.com/Molebo_8/status/1107025905434664960
. . . and uglier:
https://twitter.com/robkowa/status/1108641585959522304
It gets so bad, that eventually:
https://twitter.com/NicolaDoubleU/status/1108068158764658690
But, in the end, resistance is futile:
https://twitter.com/Omphile9/status/1108734027748556800
. . . and all hope is lost.
https://twitter.com/LolasTheme1/status/1108015118229495809
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