16 C
Cape Town
Monday, April 14, 2025

Loadshedding and its unusual consequences

Published on

With the announcement by Eskom that loadshedding will likely be here to stay for the next 2 years, the average electricity user continues to bear the brunt of rolling blackouts. Its effects on small businesses, industry, traffic, and our daily routine continues to suffer. There are also some things that are inconvenienced that we might not have predicted before loadshedding became so prevalent. Smile Breakfast heard from some of our listeners who told us about a few incidents at home.

Read more: SA Motocross superstar Kirsten Landman on Smile Breakfast

Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.

Latest articles

Get closer to winning R50 000

It's the noise that has all of Cape Town scratching their heads. Ryan's R50 000 Noise gives you the chance to win big every...

What’s in a middle name? Apparently A LOT

We have middle names for different reasons. It could be to honour family members, because of family traditions, and to tell people apart who...

The art of the jippo

Some people call them life hacks. Some people call it cheating. Some of our listeners have looked for ways to jippo the system somewhere...