What it is, how it works, and why it barely touches a stay at Muco.
Load shedding is South Africa's system of scheduled, rotating power cuts, used when national electricity demand outstrips supply. Areas are switched off in planned blocks, typically a couple of hours at a time, on a published schedule rather than at random.
Most established businesses, malls and hotels run backup power, so the practical effect on a visitor is usually smaller than the headlines suggest. The habit worth adopting is simply keeping phones and laptops topped up rather than letting them run flat.
Generator and solar backup keep the wifi, lighting and air conditioning running through outages, so a scheduled block is something you mostly notice happened elsewhere, not something that interrupts an evening or a working day at the guesthouse.
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