Load-shedding hit stage 6 again yesterday and I watched my entire freelance pipeline go dark — literally and figuratively. Three clients' websites I'm supposed to be finishing, all cloud-based, all useless when the power dies. Meanwhile the energy minister is talking about "load-shedding management" like it's a thing we should be proud of managing instead of, you know, actually fixing. What kills me is my mom's WhatsApp group started sharing tips about which suburbs have better schedules, like we're supposed to celebrate that Sandton gets four hours and Soweto gets six hours of darkness, like that's how you run a country. The design industry here is already bleeding money to Cape Town and Durban because the infrastructure works better there — we're literally losing talent because we can't keep the lights on. I need this fixed not tomorrow, not in "five-year plans," but while I'm still young enough to build something that matters here instead of somewhere else.
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