Scottish rock band Stealers Wheel, sang about ‘Clowns to the left of me! Jokers to the right!’ in their 1970s hit song ‘Stuck in the Middle with You’. At the tail-end of 2021, South African consumers are equally stuck in the middle . . . of an energy crunch. With load-shedding to the left and surging fuel prices to the right, it’s nothing to sing about either.