I think that Eskom went out of their way last year, whether it was buying lots of coal, or with plans with big industry, to somehow keep the electricity going throughout the World Cup. Either this winter or next winter, we are going to see a lot more load shedding and hopefully I will eventually get to use the huge generator I installed at my offices three years ago!

That, along with solar panels for the hot water at our offices and various other green techniques were done so that we would not have to be totally reliant on electricity – the only problem that I discovered is that you cannot totally rely on your generators either! They forever need some or other sort of maintenance, replacement batteries, not to mention running back and forth to purchase fuel. That is apart from the fact that my architect designed the separate building for the generator incorrectly, and it required expensive and lengthy modification.