The year 2022 is going to be remembered as the year when SA was plunged into unprecedented levels of load-shedding. This past weekend, after two weeks of sustained load-shedding owing to the breakdown of several units at Eskom’s coal-fired power plants, the power utility escalated load-shedding to stage 6.

Eskom has been cutting 6,000MW from the national grid – enough energy to supply roughly 4-million households. South Africans have been going without power for up to six hours a day. The impact on the economy is incalculable...