With the African National Congress (ANC) poised to hold its 55th National Electoral Congress, the threat of losing votes, and the disruption of bourgeois democratic processes, may be strong motivators for the party to respond positively to working-class community needs related to the energy crisis.
The research suggests that there are more continuities than discontinuities of oppression, exploitation, misery, and suffering with power cuts on the working class in black townships.
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