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Peter Helfrich last month wrote to the president pleading for intervention as he described ward 109 as one of the darkest places to live in South Africa.
Residents of a suburb 40km outside Cape Town plagued by repeated power outages on top of load-shedding are not only “gatvol” with Eskom but fear criminals are taking advantage of the darkness to dump bodies there.
A despondent councillor has reached out to the President of South Africa after a suburb in his ward was subjected to constant bouts of power outages.
On Monday 22 May, exactly 21 days after Macassar and parts of Firgrove started experiencing these power outages, Ward 109 councillor Peter Helfrich sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa.