ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to prioritise providing electricity to Soweto residents before they cast their votes in the 2021 local government elections on November 1.
Ramaphosa told residents that his wife was able to control the family’s electricity usage because they too were on prepaid and “this has worked much better and much cheaper”.
Ramaphosa also spoke to the community about the rampant cable theft and illegal connections. “I could sense that this is something that makes them extremely unhappy because they know that illegal connections cause an overload on the transformers and then they blow up and then it takes time for Eskom to restore the electricity.”
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