This incredible 15-second video by Youtuber Eric Nathan shows a largely blacked out Cape Town CBD during load-shedding, and then the impressive sight of the power coming back on.

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  • Kim Sedgwick
    Kim Sedgwick
    April 29, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Jason Clifton

  • Andreas H. Mulder
    Andreas H. Mulder
    April 29, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Stunning.

  • Jessica Berry
    Jessica Berry
    April 29, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    Janina Wightman

  • Francois Snyman
    Francois Snyman
    April 29, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Do you know that your website advertising is making your website useless to anyone on a mobile device

  • Rita Van Eck
    Rita Van Eck
    April 29, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    This is just awesome!

  • Cape Town Etc
    Cape Town Etc
    April 29, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    Hi Francois – thanks for the heads up! We’re looking into this.

  • Francois Snyman
    Francois Snyman
    April 29, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    Cool, thanks for replying

  • Vicky Minott
    Vicky Minott
    April 29, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    Oswald Noach Vicky

  • Willem Foster
    Willem Foster
    April 29, 2015 at 9:51 pm

    Well done Eric Nathan! This is awesome!

  • Bindya Parbat
    Bindya Parbat
    April 30, 2015 at 12:32 am

    Samyukta Manikumar

  • Lorna Hattingh
    Lorna Hattingh
    April 30, 2015 at 7:49 am

    Absolutely stunning….Cape Town at its best

  • Deborah Talbot
    Deborah Talbot
    April 30, 2015 at 8:02 am

    Michael Talbot

  • Bronwyn Nussey
    Bronwyn Nussey
    April 30, 2015 at 8:12 am

    James Andrew Gower

  • Thembelani Mthombeni
    Thembelani Mthombeni
    April 30, 2015 at 9:46 am

    Kkkkkkkk….S.Africans have now added a new word into their daily vocabulary..”load-shedding” n more are coming due to the falling rand u will soon add such words like “exchange-rate”, “osiphatheleni/change-money”.”black-market”… sad typical collapsing African states went through this…

  • Larissa le Roux
    Larissa le Roux
    April 30, 2015 at 10:45 am

    Christopher Versfeld

  • Vincent Omeddo
    Vincent Omeddo
    April 30, 2015 at 10:53 am

    Now that “power rationing” has been sanitized and re-baptized, what next on the “sanitatization” programme? Xenophobia? Unemployment? Insecurity? Feel free to add more…

  • Kay Sher
    Kay Sher
    April 30, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    Terrific

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