Eskom and load shedding has been a complete nightmare to many South Africans this year, of all the years that the country has experienced load shedding, this year has had the most hours of load shedding.
The electricity power cuts has inconvenienced the lives of millions of South African citizens in a very bad way. Load shedding has made life difficult for many people. The electricity blackouts costs so many people their businesses, livelihoods everyday.
In a country that is not doing very well, in terms of employment, a country that is facing the highest rate of unemployment ever, load shedding is not making it any easy, infact it has made things even worse.
Because of the high unemployment rate, people have created different businesses for themselves to earn some income, some business require electricity to run.
A single mother from Eastern Cape is forced to close her online teaching business because of the daily electricity blackouts.
The young mother, Lungiswa Xhamela earns a living by teaching English online to international students. Lungiswa is now forced to shut down her business because 80% of her clients quit because their lesson were constantly disrupted by the electricity blackouts.
The 33 year-old will lose her source of income because of Eskom.
According to the source, her clients became tired of her unreliable services caused by Eskom. Now Lungiswa will be forced to face unemployment and look for another Job.
The impact of load shedding is costing people, their businesses and their livelihoods.