Electricity

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Treasury to bail out Northern Cape municipality over unpaid workers

Court gives Eskom go-ahead to recoup R105 million

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News | 21 January 2022

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Soweto residents shut down streets over two-week blackout

Diepkloof residents owe Eskom R96m

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News | 8 December 2021

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Elandskop households demand end to daily power outages

Residents say they are without electricity between 5pm and 9am daily

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Brief | 6 December 2021

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Delft landlords battle as power outages chase tenants away

Eskom says illegal electricity connections and vandalism in Delft alone have cost it about R10 million since April

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News | 30 November 2021

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Climate activists picket at Parliament - accuse COP26 of excluding African farmers

“If there is no drastic change we won’t be able to farm with cattle and maize in a few years time”

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News | 8 November 2021

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Families living in Tsolo forest say they won’t be voting on Monday

The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services

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News | 28 October 2021

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Protests erupt after child electrocuted by illegal connection

Residents of Lingelihle and Greenfields in Gqeberha say they won’t be voting on Monday

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Brief | 27 October 2021

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Mthatha families buy their own transformers to electrify their homes

“Children want electricity to do their school assignments”

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News | 20 October 2021

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Nelson Mandela Bay says it will not provide services to new land occupations

The municipality is in the process of “formalising” 156 informal settlements by providing services like water, electricity and tarring roads

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News | 19 October 2021

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Hundreds block Malmesbury’s streets over “unaffordable” utility bills

Swartland municipality says its already written off more than R14.9 million in irrecoverable debt

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Brief | 5 October 2021

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Musina residents say they have had enough of water outages

Anger over municipality cutting off electricity when people default on water bills

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News | 4 October 2021

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Fishing communities fear their livelihoods are threatened by Karpowership plan

Gas energy generation licences approved despite environmental concerns

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News | 23 September 2021

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Baby drowns in tub filled with water from leaking shack

Khayelitsha residents demand better living conditions

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News | 2 September 2021

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Families want electricity bills from lockdown to be scrapped

Cape Winelands municipality battling to recover steep outstanding bills

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News | 24 August 2021

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Delft families waiting for years to have electricity restored

Power outage blamed on illegal connections at Tsunami informal settlement

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News | 23 August 2021

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Gqeberha shack dwellers block road, stone cars in protest over electricity and sanitation

700 households share three taps and three toilets

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News | 18 August 2021