Loadshedding is back

When you start seeing memos heavily-laced with words like ‘load management’, just know that we are treading into that treacherous path of load shedding. Semantics and such smart, almost-deceptive words are usually used by cunning PR teams to salve ineptitude wounds.

Many times the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has used the infamous phrase: ‘We’ve got this!’ especially when we dared to question their competence to consistently supply us with power. Only later did they admit ‘maybe we don’t’.