Load Shedding Side Hustle: Make Money Online SA
Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Read my full Affiliate Disclosure for more info. Load Shedding Side Hustle: How to Make Money Online During Eskom Outages in 2026 Eskom cut my power at 10am on a Tuesday. Stage 4. 4 hours. By 2pm, when the lights came back, I had written one affiliate post and answered 6 Quora questions. That week, one of those answers sent 140 visitors to my blog and earned me my second hosting commission — R1,040. Load shedding isn't going anywhere. But most South Africans scroll TikTok until the inverter dies and call it a day. This guide is for the ones who want to use those 4–8 hours differently. What You Need First: The R0–R500 Setup You don't need a generator. You need 3 things: 1. Mobile Data Hotspot Your phone's hotspot works fine for writing posts, answering on Quora, and uploading to YouTube. I use 2–3GB pe...