How is your business affected by load-shedding as a business owner?
Thendeka Ngwane, a marketing director of Inviscid Group, said: “We have opened our business recently and load-shedding is already affecting our business. We don’t make the profit we anticipated.”
Audrey Shayi, owner of Tshepi Tebza Trading & Projects: “The high electricity prices and load-shedding have affected my business tremendously, but load-shedding is worse because it compels me to close my shop every time it occurs.”
Riaan Draper, an owner of Draper Racing Development, said all the equipment in his company works by a three-phase electricity power current. “I’m planning to buy a generator that costs 100 000 to alleviate the backlog of work we have as a company because of load-shedding. I’m losing a lot of customers and money because of it.”
Thereza Morley, a supervisor of Centrum Pharmacy, said: “We had to buy a costly generator because of load-shedding. We buy four or more five litres bottles of petrol to keep the pharmacy open, which is costly. The generator doesn’t alleviate all our problems as a business because we can’t assist all our customers. We also hired an extra security guard because we close late every day and it is usually darker as there’s load-shedding.”
Andrew Taulo, a co-owner of RD Fashion House said, “I can’t complete all the clothes I’m sewing for my customers in time because of load-shedding. It seems like I’m making empty promises to my customers and my profits have dropped because of it.”
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