EskomSePush Shares Hilarious Loadshedding 2022 Wrap, Has SA Laughing Through the Pain: “This Is Hilarious”

EskomSePush Shares Hilarious Loadshedding 2022 Wrap, Has SA Laughing Through the Pain: “This Is Hilarious”

  • South Africans had a bit of a laugh after the popular loadshedding app EskomSePush released a 2022 wrap for the blackouts
  • The statistics they shared painted a grim picture of what the country had gone through, but in a humorous way
  • The Spotify-inspired post was well-received by most people in the country but offended a few others

South Africans let out some painful laughs after the popular app, EskomSePush, released a loadshedding 2022 wrap online.

The app has ballooned over the years and has millions of users.
The app has ballooned over the years and has millions of users on it. Images: @EskomSePush/ Twitter, Petri Oeschger/ Getty Images
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The post on Twitter featured key metrics about how many hours were lost due to the rolling blackouts. For example, @EskomSePush pointed out that 192 720 minutes of power was lost this year, which is a crazy amount to think about.

A life of consistent darkness

The infamous company had announced that the country would be put into stage 6 loadshedding indefinitely, souring moods across the country. Downloads of the EskomSePush app increased due to the previous and this months loadshedding.

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The statistics show that since September this year, the times loadshedding has happened has increased every month. According to TimesLIVE, stage 2 loadshedding will happen every evening and will be done indefinitely.

Peeps laughed and criticised the power utility in the comment sections. Read the responses below:

@navinbachu said:

"And thank you and your team for the awesome app and these types of tweets and updates. You kept us in the loop as SePushed ‍♂️our way through the SOS (Swinging Of Stages) by @Eskom_SA."

@tysonngubeni mentioned:

"We need this annually, please "

@Katlego_Sii posted:

@wiumjolene commented:

"Cool stats! Any chance we can give the area that received the most time in the dark a shout-out or a funny prize?"

@owamgovender said:

"Hate that a joke is being made out of this meanwhile, businesses are losing a lot of money because of the diesel that they need to pay for..."

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@Sabs_Mafungase shared:

@Stu5Kart mentioned:

"And does the ANC government have the plan to fix it? No."

@Naidoo73 commented:

" How can something be so hilarious and depressing at the same time Thanks for the great work by the way "

Eskom announces Stage 6 will continue indefinitely, South Africans express frustration: “Seriously? I give up”

In another story, Briefly News reported that South Africa's largest power producer, Eskom, announced that stage six loadshedding would continue indefinitely in the country.

According to eNCA, the company states that the problem stems from generators breaking down. In addition, the budget cuts the utility has experienced have also pushed it to conserve fuel reserved for its diesel-fired gas turbines.

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Siphesihle Luthango Siphesihle Luthango is an up-and-coming journalist and an experienced English teacher. He holds a Bachelors of Social Science majoring in Journalism and International Studies (Cum laude) from IIE MSA. He has a passion for telling human interest stories and joined the Briefly News team in August 2022. He enjoys watching documentaries and reading current affairs and philosophical books.

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