The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality pulled the plug on government facilities in arrears with electricity bills on Thursday, with the North End Prison staving off a power cut after an hour-long meeting with officials.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality continued to pull the plug on electricity defaulters on Tuesday, leaving Eskom’s offices in Cape Road in darkness.
Businesses, student housing, a guest house and property linked to Transnet National Ports Authority chief executive Pepi Silinga were plunged into darkness on Wednesday as the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality started its electricity disconnection drive.
The interminable delay in the hearings reflects the perennially low priority assigned to cases of unsafe working conditions in Canadian labour jurisprudence.