A major British company has warned that they could face up to six hours of power cuts. Image: Pixabay
Six load shedding tweets that made us LOL today
Load shedding is no laughing matter, but South Africans certainly know how to see the funny side. Here’s what tweeps have been saying this week.
A major British company has warned that they could face up to six hours of power cuts. Image: Pixabay
Load shedding is now am embedded part of our lives as South Africans.
The informative and ever-reliable EskomSePush recently tweeted a pretty sobering piece of information. Below, you see a graph depicting the longest load shedding streaks in since its inception. 450 consecutive hours of load shedding, is that a joke? Surely not.
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So, how do we make ourselves feel better about bad things? We laugh about them, of course. South Africans are resilient people and we can see the funny side of most situations.
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So, here’s what tweeps have been saying (those who were smart enough to charge their phones) about load shedding this week.
Six load shedding tweets that have us cackling
This guy isn’t pulling any punches about his experiences in taxi ranks:
This shouldn’t be funny but it is. Be safe, South African drivers, and make sure you know the rules of the road!
Until next week when we’ll surely have more load shedding tweets to laugh/cry about, I bid you farewell.
** All of the tweets included in this article represent the views of the authors of said tweets, and not those of the South African or the author of this article. They’re still very funny though.
