TEMBISA, South Africa: Almost as soon as Anselmo Munghabe plopped the 23-pound battery onto a table in his tin shack barbershop, people began to flock in.
He plugged two power strips into the battery. Soon it sprouted a bouquet of cellphones and wires.
Customers had arrived not to cut their hair, but to charge their phones, paying Munghabe 5 rand (about RM1.20) for each plug.
Munghabe’s community north of Johannesburg has been without electricity since April.
Although nine in ten South Africans are connected to the national electricity grid, power cuts in the count
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