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Residents from several villages in the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality in Mpumalanga are living in darkness because they can't buy prepaid electricity recharge tokens from vendors of power utility Eskom.
A dispute over Covid-19 lockdown pay prompted Thembisile Hani Local Municipality workers to embark on a go-slow in Mpumalanga, which affected water supply to homes in Thembalethu and Mandela villages.
The Thembisile Hani municipality has resorted to erecting boards on the land, in order to alert the public that it owns the properties.
Many residents and business owners in various areas of the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality in Mpumalanga have appealed to Eskom to suspend or end its scheduled power supply cuts, saying they have made their lives difficult.