For 20 years Amos Vilakazi’s tuckshop enjoyed decent business with about 300 customers a week and making R3,000 in profit – but it all fell apart nine months ago when a local transformer blew up.
An attempted cable theft incident and damage to infrastructure could see residents of Bedfordview in Ekurhuleni without electricity for up to five days, Eskom said on Tuesday.
âLOAD SHEDDING LEFT US HOMELESSâ Aaron Dube
THEY were preparing to sleep when the electricity came back after load shedding.
Their four-roomed shack went up in flames. And Kgomotso Magongwa (38) from Chris Hani in Hammanskraal, Tshwane, lost everything.
“The fire started in the room where the transformer was. I heard a huge bang and when I checked, my transformer was burning,” she said.
Kgomotso and her kids ran outside and tried to put out the fire with sand and water, but the flames were too strong.
She said she blamed Eskom for the load shedding that burnt down her shack.