Unable to turn on heaters, cook dinner or charge their phones, South Africans have spent their winter evenings thrust into antiquated darkness amid rolling blackouts over the past two weeks. "It’s like we're back to apartheid life, whereby we're back to candles, paraffin stoves," says Rebecca Bheki-Mogotho, an administrator for the city of Johannesburg. The blackouts - called load shedding – leave residents without power two to three times per day, lasting two to four hours at a time. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES