"This is Africa"

Apparently the power outage is intentional.  It's called load shedding where Eskom decides to shed the load of power from one area to another leaving some cities without power for 2-3 hours.  There is supposedly a schedule, but really, you don't know when it's going to happen and you just deal when it does.  The reaction of everyone around me- [shoulder shrug] and the comment "This is Africa."