It’s estimated that load-shedding can cost South Africa over R4 Billion a day. This can be devastating for small businesses. 

There are many different ways load-shedding affects small businesses. It really doesn’t matter what the business does or what industry it’s in, it will almost certainly be affected by load-shedding power outages in some way. 

Knowing how load-shedding affects small businesses is important for preparing for these incredibly disruptive power cuts.

I am Nandisa from a rural area called Ndlangubo.

We are a company called Sanamve Foods, we had a chicken start up business but due to load shedding we shut down and worse we had plans for making it but lost 100 chickens🥹💔, now we are shut down completely and lost even the start-up investment we had put into the business.

It’s crazy because we just got our electricity back because of the disturbance with the transformer. 

Guest on the line: Nandisa Nsibande –from Sanamve Foods