Blackouts become a way of life

WHAT South Africans have experienced in the past 12 days with load-shedding has already been experienced in a number of other industrialised and developing countries, with many others joining us every week.

The big stories of blackouts have come from Brazil, Cuba, Pakistan, Chile, the US state of California, the Baltic states, Iraq and Uganda, and will include Tajikistan, Rwanda, Zambia and those on the South African grid.