Councillor Michael Sun says teams are working around the clock to deal with a deluge of outages
13 December 2022 - 12:39Joburg residents are becoming increasingly frustrated by load-shedding and unplanned outages. Picture: 123RF/mushroomsartthree
“I had to take my two children to their granny’s house in Soweto. That was not part of our plans because we had planned to spend quality time with them since schools are closed,” he said. Khoza said the family were forced to throw away food on Monday that had spoiled in the fridge. “Every day you hang on to [the] hope [that] power will be restored but it does not happen. If I had known we would go for so many days without power, I would have taken food to friends’ houses.”
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