Luvuyo Mjekula

President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed shock and anger at the news that Eskom implemented stage 4 load-shedding on Monday and that the situation could get even worse. The Rep News Editor asked residents if they were as shocked.

John Stafford from Bergsig

It is disappointing. The way the economy is at the moment, it just does not make any sense.

But at the end of the day we have to live with it. The president needs to get his act together and work on his priorities. We need to worry about what’s happening in our country before we worry about what’s happening overseas.

Ashley Smith from New Rest

It’s quite disappointing. We are as shocked as the president is. We have been paying taxes and living by the book but we are getting the wrong end of the stick. It’s voting time now, we don’t know who to vote for because it seems there is a lot of talk, but nobody is doing anything.

Lauren Latola from Aloevale

I am just disappointed about (load-shedding), it’s not a nice thing. I did not expect it. It was water, now we have load-shedding. In Aloevale we don’t have water every day.

Lwazi Tshingila from Ezibeleni

To be honest, to me it’s no surprise that we have load shedding. Now that load shedding is back they will give us water because we have had none. When there is power there is no water, when there is water there is no power. What angers us is that power switches off without warning – no notification from Eskom as it was before.

Ntombi Malumla from Top Town

It shocked me. We had to stop working. I am disappointed, I don’t like load shedding.

I hope the president can do something about it.