Electricity

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

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

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

Baby drowns in tub filled with water from leaking shack

Khayelitsha residents demand better living conditions

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News | 2 September 2021

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

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

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

Plettenberg Bay protesters close N2

Kurland residents want electricity problem fixed

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Brief | 4 August 2021

Fire kills one man and destroys 200 shacks in Cato Manor

Residents say this is the third devastating fire in eight months at Marikana informal settlement

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Brief | 9 July 2021

Siqalo shack dwellers want solar power

Residents are asking the City of Cape Town to subsidise a model they say worked in Stellenbosch

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News | 8 July 2021

Domestic worker’s decade long struggle to make her RDP house liveable

Six months after moving in, Nokwayintombi Pateni’s home has still not been electrified

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News | 1 July 2021

“I grabbed my son and a suitcase packed with clothes” says fire victim describing a chaotic scene

More than 50 Capetonians have been left in the rain with nowhere to sleep tonight

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News | 22 June 2021

Police and shack dwellers clash over illegal connections in Gqeberha

Govan Mbeki Village residents want their izinyoka left alone

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News | 14 June 2021

No money for electrification, municipal official tells shack dwellers

Residents from five informal settlements in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality are demanding electricity and other services

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News | 14 June 2021

Shack dwellers install their own taps and toilets

8,000 families in Khayelitsha find ways to cope without city services

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News | 2 June 2021

Protesters torch ten electricity poles in Kariega

Several communities surrounding Area 11 plunged into darkness since Saturday

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Brief | 1 June 2021