This week in South Africa the conversation has been about electricity, electricity and more electricity. Or rather, the lack of electricity, if we're being honest, and how it's affected all the different parts of how lives.How load shedding is impacting our psyche
The return of load shedding has been met with an array of emotions ranging from disillusionment to outrage. Cape Talk's John Maytham spoke to psychiatrist Dr. Claire Lownie about the psychological impact of load shedding and the ways that we can manage it.The erratic electricity schedule has made it such that people don't have consistent daily patterns as all our activities need to be planned around the shifting load-shedding Stages.
Department of Mineral Resources & Energy had a signing ceremony for the preferred bidders for renewable energy.Mandy Wiener spoke to a energy expert to learn more.Even though we've been surviving with load shedding for nearly two decades, many of us still don't understand what it actually is from technical point.There was one other thing that happened during the week that dominated the headlines: The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.