AS THE country continues to reel from brutal power cuts, the country’s tottering public health institutions are paying the price for the relentless loadshedding. At the same time, the power cuts have worsened the ability of struggling local authorities around the country to treat their water and pump it to parched suburbs and industrial areas….

Citizens are angry over the nation’s record power cuts, and politicians are seeking to deflect blame for a crisis that’s been a quarter century in the making.
