Johan Grbe News Today

Electricity, not a diamond, is forever in the Namaqualand — or so it seems for the diamond-mining towns of Kleinzee and Koingnaas that have yet to experience load-shedding this year, thanks to a technical anomaly.

They were the towns that nobody wanted — until now. Kleinzee and Koingnaas in a remote corner of the Northern Cape have had no load-shedding due to a quirk of history.