It's actually the electricity company in South Africa going bankrupt and not being able to power everyone, so they have planned power outage across the entire country up until April. What a messy situation !

i haven't had hot water in 5 years and in Winter it has be cursing like a sailor lol
On the good side it's apparently great for your skin and detoxification ! I was cursing too and punching the couch for some reason, i sounded like a crazy person, I think the neighbors are all used to me swearing in french by now