<p>With rolling blackouts hitting stage 6, insurance companies have stopped insuring against some Eskom-related claims. But, if your home solar system was installed by someone without the right certification and not registered with the correct authorities, that system isn’t insured. Nor is your house as a result, warns Chris Liebenberg, Elite Energy’s technical director. Going solar needs planning and research, he tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak in the first podcast in a new series about getting off-grid. Read more on <a href="http/:stuff.co.za">Stuff</a>.</p>

How SA is solving its own power problems, with Syntech and Gizzu – T2S2

Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about how innovation, especially fintech, is better in Africa. His TED Global talk has over 1,5-million views. He is editor-in-chief of Stuff Studios, a Forbes senior contributor and a Financial Mail columnist. 
He has covered tech, mobile and Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for 20 years, including for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian.
Named in GQ's top 30 men in media and Mail &amp; Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans, GQ said Shapshak "has become the most high-profile tech journalist in the country".