Businesses reel from load shedding

The constant power cuts usually lasted for hours. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday last week, business was again disrupted as power cuts started late in the afternoon. Power only returned late in the evening.In an interview with Mmegi recently, a senior official at Database-net Internet Caf located at the busy Barclays Plaza building, Mooketsi Mooketsi, complained that their venture has lost an extensive amount of revenue in recent weeks as a result of constant power disruptions.

"In this nature of business, every hour lost is money. We also serve a lot of tertiary students who do assignments here. If there are constant power cuts, they also lose vital information and do not submit assignments on time. The past three weeks have been hell because of power disruptions," he disclosed.Likewise, Ishmael Seretsi who runs Rootical Boutique, also at Barclays Plaza, stated that his business has extensively suffered from constant power cuts.