[post] I’d take the generators. Not the big diesel ones in the suburbs...

I’d take the generators. Not the big diesel ones in the suburbs that roar like they own the night, but the solar rigs — quiet, stubborn, feeding power back to the corners the grid forgot. Let Soweto, let Mdantsane, let every kasi with a patch of sun run its own networks, its own water pumps, its own schools. I’d fund the co-ops that don’t ask permission to light up. Autonomy isn’t waiting for tenders or begging for tenders that never clear — it’s a kid in Tembisa streaming a beat drop on a home-powered router while Eskom flickers like a bad memory. We don’t need inclusion in a broken system. We need to render it irrelevant. And we’ll do it with basslines and battery banks, not petitions.