South Africa electricity crisis: govt considers national state of disaster
South Africa is in the midst of an energy crisis and now the deeply indebted state power supplier Eskom is racing to try and recoup some of the phenomenal losses it's facing due to the sheer number of customers who have not been paying thier bills. In Johannesburg, city officials are now raiding homes and literally cutting people off from the grid. FRANCE 24's correspondents Caroline Dumay, Nadine Theron and Stefan Carstens report.
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