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Khayelitsha households in the dark for a month as Eskom fails to fix transformers

Residents in Ndlovini say Eskom has ignored repeated complaints

Nompumelelo Nyanga with candles inside her home in Ndlovini, Khayelitsha. Her electricity has been off for over a month now. Photos: Vincent Lali
Albertina Dingalibala, her daughter and grandchild have been without electricity for over a month. She is among hundreds of households in Ndlovini, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, who have had to resort to fires for cooking and candles for lighting.
Residents say three transformers broke down between 17 and 26 April.
GroundUp sent questions to Eskom’s media office last Friday, and despite several attempts no response was received.
Dingalibala says she has spent most of her old-age grant on paraffin.
“When my grant runs out, I collect discarded wooden planks and make fire to boil water and cook outside,”…

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