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The community of an informal settlement in Alexandra is elated at the fact that it will finally get proper electricity after years of using illegal connections for supply.
‘The fact that we will not be paying is not because we don’t want to pay, it is because when we pay, we are not receiving anything back’, says LRA chair
Most parts of Eldorado Park regularly descend into darkness as electricity fails, forcing desperate residents to come up with alternatives, including building fires to prepare a hot meal.