The Soweto electricity crisis committee confirm planned shut down for Tuesday and Wednesday
The Soweto electricity crisis committee’s Trevor Ngwane confirm planned to shut down for Tuesday and Wednesday in protest against what they called unfair rolling power cuts in areas that owe Eskom.
Soweto residents planned a two days Shutdown protest due to power cuts and Eskom’s unavailability to engage with the community and the flat rate proposal.
The Soweto Shut Down protest leader Dr. Trevor Ngwane say all they want is to have a meeting with Eskom to come up with solution for their electricity crisis, they complained about unfair power cuts during load shedding and Eskom’s unavailability to engage with the community.
Soweto’s historic debt owed to the struggling power utility is over R 18 million for electricity.
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According to Dr. Ngwane they will be protesting for affordable electricity, against the unfair rolling black outs in areas like Soweto that owe Eskom and power failures due to maintenance.
He made an example stating that when the transformer is damaged, Eskom will not come and repair it.
“To accommodate the poorest of the poorer we should have what we call a life line tariff where everyone rich or poor gets a minimum amount of electricity the same way as it is happening with water and they can only start paying as per usage after that,” said Dr. Ngwane.
Rea Vaya bus service also warned commuters that the bus service will be negatively impacted, in a statement on twitter.
The bus service apologised for the inconvenience they said commuters will be made aware of the diversions as the situation unfolds.
Police spokesperson Kay Makhubela said the police are always prepared to control the situation.
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