JOHANNESBURG — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers.
Then the lights go out. The shops are pitch dark. “Hold on to your wallets,” calls out a customer to rueful chuckles.
A long minute later, the distant hum of a generator can be heard.
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