Homesteading means living a self-sufficient lifestyle, with little help from others. Can you be a homesteader in a Cape Town suburb? Sort of…
Wrapping a present for my mother’s birthday, I remarked to assembled family members: “We are now full members of the middle classes.”
Continue readingThe question of electricity (and where it comes from) has been much on the minds of South Africans lately.
Ongoing entrenched problems at the nation’s power utility mean we suffer from “loadshedding” – rotational power cuts, aimed at preventing the national grid from collapse. (There’s a good explainer here).
The latest round of these power cuts happened at around the same time as sustained international news coverage of COP26 and the climate crisis.
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