The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is grappling with a mounting backlog of applications for the assistance to the poor (ATTP) programme as scores of residents await registration.
Some 18,000 electricity thieves in Nelson Mandela Bay have come forward to apply for the municipality’s amnesty, though the city continues to struggle with 42,000 more illegal connections.
A quick fix by the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, which connected the power supply from a New Brighton house to another to keep the lights on, has sparked tension between the two families.