Daniel Mkhwanazi
It has been more than a decade since South Africans have been experiencing some power outages and yet load-shedding has been the worst-case scenario, and it even makes problematic cases around the community.
Even when some of the households pay their electricity bills, yet still they struggle with the rest of the ones that don’t worry about paying for their electrical bills. And it’s worse for those informal settlements that make illegal connections which affects the rest of the community residents. Even some of the tuck shop owners do not take accountability to pay for an electricity bill.
The electricity crisis in townships is very a huge problem that has even cost some residents their lives, a local tuck shop owner said he suffers a lot because he loses some frozen items inside his refrigerator which makes their food spoilt and the plugs get burnt out due to load-shedding.
Apparently, it happened that in the early morning, the community members saw that the local shops had been on fire due to the load shedding that keeps on happening frequently, and it ruined almost everything in those local shops. There is still investigation of the incident on how the fire started but the owner said that it has to do with the electricity crisis.
The community members should always intend safety measures to ensure that they don’t have such traumatic experiences regarding the electricity crisis, such as households getting affected by fire caused by power outages and load-shedding.
