Electricity

Cape Town households call for electricity tariffs to be reduced

City says NERSA’s 15% tariff recommendation would lead to a shortfall of R500-million for 2023/24

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News | 28 August 2023

Madibeng protesters travel 60km to complain to mayor

They are demanding consistent and clean drinking water as well as electricity

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Brief | 22 August 2023

Shack dwellers look to renewable energy to power informal settlements

A group of organisations have created successful small projects, but now they want to aim bigger

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Brief | 15 August 2023

Hundreds protest in Madibeng over water and electricity

The ward councillor took refuge in a house and refused to come out, fearing for his life.

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Brief | 25 July 2023

Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”

City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements

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News | 21 July 2023

Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government

After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park

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News | 21 July 2023

Truck torched in Gqeberha electricity protest

Chaos on busy Addo Road

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Brief | 13 July 2023

Municipality collected 90% of electricity bills but failed to pay Eskom

Emfuleni owes Eskom R3.5-billion and must now hand over its electricity business to the power utility, Pretoria High Court orders

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Law | 6 July 2023

EThekwini Municipality fixes streetlights in Bester at last

Community policing forum members says better lit streets will make crime prevention and patrols easier

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Brief | 3 July 2023