Rand Water urged municipalities to pay for the water they receive and commit to collaborating with them to come up with payment plans that they will be able to adhere to. File photo.
The Rand West City Local Municipality (RWCLM) has informed residents that plans are in place to restore power temporarily in the Venterspos area.
Executive manager of Infrastructure Development, Bongani Nkambule said in a statement, “Eskom and RWCLM are currently busy with emergency planning to temporarily restore electricity in this area.
You are hereby kindly informed that the current outage which we are experiencing in Venterspos since last week, August 12 was due to vandalism and theft.”
Nkabule warned residents that all electrical installations and appliances should be treated as live at all times.
“We apologise for the inconvenience and want to give assurance that the electricity supply will be restored in the shortest possible time,” the statement concluded.
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For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
