How a small tourist town’s residents collaborated to beat load-shedding
Free State hamlet’s unique deal with Eskom delivers its inhabitants from load-shedding
28 January 2024 - 00:00
Residents of the tourist hamlet of Clarens in the Free State are living a life most South Africans can only dream of. The town hasn’t had load-shedding for eight weeks. And it doesn’t plan on bringing it back anytime soon...
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