uMngeni municipality Mayor Chris Pappas has accused the ANC in his city of coordinating community protests to prevent electricity connections in the Mpophomeni area. | kaveels
He also told Pappas to desist from"playing politics with serious issues affecting our people and conducting witch hunts to lay blame elsewhere".
"Whist the ANC has deep understanding of the seriousness and the impact of this negligence of the uMngeni municipality on the lives of the people, we vehemently condemn the use of violence and the destruction of property."At the heart of the matter is an electricity outage which left most of the area without electricity. After power was restored, around 140 homes were still without electricity.
"We said we will replace the infrastructure and all we have to do is this audit, which will take six to nine hours, and then we can continue from there.""A transformer blew because of overload. When that happens, we have taken a stance, just like Eskom, that we must conduct a meter audit before we replace or repair the structure, or else we will replace it and the issue will happen again.
"So, when I got into government in November 2021, the municipality was offering 50kW free, which is very little. We increased that to 150kW, which is roughly R650 worth of electricity, which we are offering to vulnerable and poor households.
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