It’s that time again – the time where we can be proudly South African – because sporadically sitting in darkness with 6% on your phone is the epiphany of ‘local is lekker’.

Why is this load shedding happening, at the start of summer nogal? Well, it’s said that there was a “collapse of a coal silo, silo number 20, at the Majbuba power station early Saturday afternoon, thereby severely impacting the station’s ability to produce power.” So, in order for South Africa’s entire power grid to not experience a black out, this nationwide load shedding is pretty necessary. 

Time to prepare when to take a hot shower, when to cook dinner, and buy all of the torches and candles. Check out Cape Town’s load shedding schedule here.

Also, don’t be a fool like me. While taking some time out to breathe on the beach on Sunday, I hadn’t thought of not having the luxury of charging my phone when I got home – my phone, which of course, was almost dead. Have you heard of Murphy and his stupid law? Keys were forgotten, no calls were able to be made – life was tough. White girl tough. Which means it wasn’t actually that tough but just SUPER inconvenient.

We’re too amateur to go two and a half hours at a time with a dead phone or laptop. Human to human communication is just not the same anymore without a quick phone check or Facebook browse, and who uses street phones anymore?

I did myself a favour (and you should too), and bought one of these – The Lenmar Mutant Portable Power Pack. This guy has a 20,800mAh external battery pack, 4 USB ports and charges up to 2 tablets and 2 mobile phones simultaneously.

CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS FOR R1 901,00