My f*k, Eskom!

I'm writing this during load shedding, so this is going to be a short column - my candle (and laptop battery) is running low…

Eskom, I think I am speaking for the whole country when I say: "WTF?"

STAGE 6?!

You guys are breaking our hearts like an unfaithful partner.

When Pravin Gordhan took all the journalists on that super-secret-no-sandals-trip to a power station a year ago, he promised that we would have nothing more than stage 2 in the future.

Then Jabu Mabuza promised us in November that there would be no load shedding through the festive period. So we packed up the rechargeable lamps, didn’t buy diesel for the generators and didn’t fill the gas bottles.

And just like that: "Poof!" Zero electricity on Thursday night.

Not nice, guys, not nice.

As one of the memes said: "The E in 'South Africa' stands for electricity."

So, I have a few questions about this crisis:

1) Where is Andre De Ruyter? …