Desperate to avoid load-shedding? Perhaps moving to gangland will help. The City of Cape Town is considering exempting some of its most notorious gang areas from load-shedding because of crime concerns.Pushing the proposal is mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith, who says outages are hindering officials in his gang unit from doing their jobs in Manenberg, Ottery and Hanover Park.During gang shootouts, police were "under risk of police shooting on police", he said, adding: "It is really chaotic and it makes doing the police job almost impossible."He has asked the city utilities department to consider an end to load-shedding in these areas, leaving the street lights on or load-shedding only during the day.Manenberg Community Police Forum (CPF) spokesman Kader Jacobs said load-shedding also put emergency services at risk. They had difficulty entering an area during outages.ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said it was hard for personnel to find their way around in the dark. "We have had incidents. Paramedics have been attacked."Hanover Park CPF chairman Ebrahim Abrahams said: "As soon as the power goes off, the gangsters shoot and they steal the power cables. They strategise."Police were not available to comment...