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The Lekwa Ratepayers Association took the power utility to court over its ‘internal load shedding’, which it implemented in 2020 at the height of Covid-19, and they won.
Many defaulting municipalities across SA were hit on Thursday by load reduction — on top of load shedding.
Farmers and residents of debt-ridden Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality are furious about a bid to auction off ‘uneconomic assets’.
Poorly maintained infrastructure — much of it more than 100 years old — dysfunctional wastewater treatment plants, fraud, corruption and collapse of local governance mean taps in many towns and villages have either run dry or have undrinkable water. Impact of corruption in the Department of...