I am South African and absolutely hate load shedding. 2 or 4 hours without electricity every day (when LS is active), often over dinnertime and other times you'd like to use electricity.

Makes life much more meh.

FWIW I think Texas had rolling blackouts in winter last year, similar to ZA load shedding. Will likely happen again this winter unless they manage to link into other states' grids (IIRC). Would be interesting to see some kind of comparison between the Texas and ZA electricity problems. Undoubtedly also a lot of corruption involved there.