I was trying to top up with electricity this afternoon. Most of South Africa operates on pre-paid meters, and so it’s very easy to buy units from shops, but it’s even easier to buy it online from your banking app.
Except when it’s not.
Because, shockingly (no pun intended): electricity is unavailable.
At least, it’s “currently unavailable”, lol (no pun intended).
To be fair, we haven’t had any loadshedding for a while now. It’s been over 200 days. And, while we were rightfully rather grumpy with Eskom about the whole loadshedding thing, which cost the country billions and billions of Rands and was awful, dangerous (and occasionally a bit frightening) to live through, we should tip our hats to the people in charge (no pun intended) who have done what needed to be done to fix the problems.
Now all they need to do is talk to my bank about sorting out their “Electricity – unavailable” issue.
Thank goodness the solar has been working hard all day, so we’ll be fine for the night.
Talking of which – we were even pulling in 2W from the moonlight at midnight over the weekend:
Because of course moonlight is just reflected sunlight.
Which makes you wonder how vampires wander around with impunity on cloudless nights.
Another 74 horror movies ruined, just like that.