In an effort to encourage payments, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality plans to slash the 10% down-payment for residents whose electricity meter boxes have been blocked for arrears and were then tampered with.
A full investigation has been launched into the explosion of a substation situated at the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) on Saturday night, which will cost the city at least R40m to fix.
That law-enforcement in this country is virtually non-existent is evidenced by the seeming impunity with which criminals dug a 400m trench on Allister Miller Drive in Gqeberha, a relatively busy road passing the airport and leading to the beachfront, to steal underground cables, while also stripping cables from the street lights.
Vandals have dug up a 400m trench along Allister Miller Drive in Walmer to steal underground cables, while also stripping copper from various street lights.
It was a new start for partsof the Khayelitsha informal settlement in Motherwell on Wednesday as the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality disconnected illegal connections and installed metered electricity boxes.