WATCH | zNyoka zNyoka and snuif: load-shedding has become unbearable,' says DA supporter

Khumalo, 44, used her style to highlight how people are resorting to stealing electricity in her suburb of Langlaagte in Johannesburg.

“Everything is znyoka znyoka [a colloquial term for illegal connections] in this country. This is how I survive. I take the cables and plug it into my iron, my TV ... that's what we have to do. I don't know what the president is doing with the money, we are suffering too much.”

Khumalo was surrounded by a handful of friends spurring her on during the interview, one of whom put her nose to a tiny yellow tub on which a pile of “snuif” [finely powdered tobacco for sniffing] rested.

“It helps with the stress of having to deal with what we go through. We have no electricity and no-one cares about what we have to go through. We have children to send to school, cook food — tell me, what do we do after having requested assistance constantly over the past five years?” she asked.

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