• An angry young resident of Kagiso writes:

It is with a sad and heavy heart that I write this email to you to make you as the media aware of the challenges we face on a regular basis as young and old people who reside in Kagiso 2.

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We have a number of electrical boxes/ transformers that have exploded since last year in different sections of our township and when Eskom technicians come when we call them all of them say the same thing, being that each household is expected to fork out R6 000 or R4 000 in order to repair the transformers.

Now firstly most of these households if not all of them are occupied by unemployed people, most of whom are grannies who depend on SASSA grants to survive. We have people in Lewisham who have not had electricity for eight whole months now because none of them can afford the R6 000 that Eskom demands in order to repair their boxes.

Now if the current government cares about the people they are supposed to serve none of this would have happened.

We have people complaining about this load-shedding and how it’s affecting our daily lives; we can’t cook, we can’t bathe, we literally cannot function without electricity.

How do you tell a 10-year-old that they have to sleep on an empty stomach and not take a bath or eat breakfast in the morning before going to school due to not having electricity? How long will we ask and beg the government to do what they were hired to do and that is to provide uninterrupted services to the people?

We are struggling, we are tired of empty promises, we need solutions and we need them now!!