Small business owners hard hit by SA’s load-shedding

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Small business owners count the cost of crippling power cuts across SA this week

Hardware shop worker Maxwell Nkane uses a torch during a power cut in Ekurhuleni. Small business owners have been hard hit by this week's rolling blackouts. Picture: LEBOHANG MASHILOANE

Now she is considering it. “If we do not have a generator we basically close down,” she said. “We hope the business can survive,” she said, noting that her business was losing R1,000 a day. Magur Patel, manager of a green grocer in Alexandra, said he was losing 20% of his income every day that there was a power cut — he had lost up to R20,000 this month, he said.

 

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