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If your lights or water go off unexpectedly at night in parts of Buffalo City you are on your own. Several areas in the metro have become so dangerous that city staff are not prepared to provide services there at night in fear for their own safety. So serious has the problem become that the metro has made a list of “no-go areas” where it says it might not be able to send its officials when there is an electricity or water outage due to safety concerns.

Just weeks away from the 15th anniversary of when SA was first subjected to rotational power cuts, the country was hammered on Sunday by the implementation of stage 6 load-shedding. Making matter worse, Eskom has also disclosed that it will be seeking a 32% electricity tariff hike next year. The embattled state power utility’s CEO, Andre de Ruyter, said it was doing everything it could to prevent a “total system collapse”.

Women in blue in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality are making their mark and ensuring safer communities

Criminals are ripping off the Eastern Cape’s infrastructure in well-organised cable theft heists that have left state property in ruins, with repair bills running into the tens of millions of rand. The Buffalo City Metro (BCM) said last year it would cost more than R22m to repair the damaged infrastructure.

Florence Jansen is one of the East Londoners who tried to help homeless 15-year-old Sihle Ndaweni* turn his life around.