Businesses and families are coping with rolling outages of electricity totaling seven to 10 hours per day
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays, and Johannesburg’s popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers.
Then the lights go out. The shops are pitch dark. “Hold on to your wallets,” calls out a customer to rueful chuckles. A long minute later the distant hum of a generator can be heard. The lights and music flicker back on and clerks resume ringing up purchases. Read more.
