The black hole

I know this is a variation on a theme I’ve touched on before, but this charming corner of the Third World has really outdone itself.

I’ve always been content to slowly boil to death like the good frog in a pot that I am, but lately the heat has been turned up several notches. The never-ending rolling blackouts have got to the point where nobody refers to power utility Eskom without appending the word “fucking” as a prefix.

The best part? The government was warned about this about thirty years ago. ...