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When the municipal tap stays dry for days at a time, a borehole stops looking like a luxury and starts looking like insurance. More South African households are drilling every year, and many of them are discovering that the rules…
A root cellar keeps your potatoes sound through winter, and a zeer pot will hold a week of greens through an outage. Neither will save a freezer full of meat when the power goes and stays gone. Meat needs a…
Every root cellar guide you will find online starts with the same number: keep your vegetables between 0°C and 4°C. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension guide to root cellar storage gives exactly that range as the optimum for…
Why This 3,000 Year Old Idea Is Back Nine out of ten South African households have thrown away food that spoiled in the fridge during load shedding, according to a survey commissioned by Debt Rescue, and more than a third…
South African households are getting better at hedging against failing utilities. Many homes now have an inverter and panels, and a growing number have a JoJo tank or two, a rainwater setup, or a borehole. Yet many of these homes…
Why spring is your most important sowing window If you only sow seriously once a year, make it now. Spring gives South African gardeners long days, warming soil and a full growing season ahead, which is the combination that turns…
Most South African households have quietly built a backup plan for electricity. Inverters, panels, a gas hob, a generator for the bad weeks. Very few have built one for water, and that is worth thinking about. You can sit in…
Most South African solar owners fall into the same routine within a month of commissioning. They open the app, glance at the flow diagram, see energy moving in roughly the right direction, and close it again. The system either works…
Most South African households already own an emergency food supply. It is sitting in the freezer, it is worth several thousand rand, and it will be worthless about forty-eight hours after the power stops for real. That is the uncomfortable…
Every solar quote in this country ends at the same place. Panels, inverter, battery, certificate of compliance, sign here. Almost nobody hands you the second half of the arithmetic, which is what happens in year eight when the pack that cost you a third of the system budget is quietly delivering two thirds of what it used to. If you are still at the planning stage, our breakdown of the more affordable way to go solar in South Africa covers how to size the system in the first place. This piece is about what happens to it afterwards.
