It's been a tough four days for residents in Parys and Vredefort, who have been without electricity and endured knock-on water outages while the municipality worked to come up with the cash to honour its promise to pay Eskom.
From Friday to Monday afternoon they spent about R15,000 on fuel to keep their generators running.
“This has been a draining time for all of us. You can even see how drained and depressed the staff are here because when they leave here they go home to the same situation in the township, worse for them is that they have no backup power,” she said. Why should we suffer when we have paid? I really wish we could do what other towns were able to do by getting a third party to manage the finances of the municipalityThough she has borehole water and backup power, she felt it unfair that they couldn't access services they have already paid for from the municipality.
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