Palesa Morudu is a writer and a director at Clarity Global Strategic Communications based in Washington.
Last month — not for the first time — the lights went off in South Africa.
On Dec. 9, national power utility Eskom removed an unprecedented 6,000 megawatts from the country’s electricity grid. Mines and factories were forced to shut down. Households also went dark, cutting off stoves, refrigerators and computers. Cellphone networks were severely disrupted. President Cyril Ramaphosa had to cut short his state visit to Egypt to attend to the latest installment of an ongoing national crisis.
