People living illegally in an abandoned factory had allegedly connected electricity illegally and threatened to burn down nearby factories if Eskom cut the cables.
Eskom technicians abandoned part of their operation to remove illegal connections in Marlboro industrial area on Thursday for safety reasons.
“If we had jobs many people wouldn't be staying here. We don't work, we went to school, we have matric but we can't find jobs,” she said. She said she would boycott the next year’s elections. “How will we vote if they're doing this to us? They could just leave us or electrify our area so that we will be safe. Now they have disconnected us and there is a lot of crime here,” she said.
He said people living in one of the abandoned factories connected a cable to a substation that connects to his factory, which manufactures water bottles. “Leave the cable. Rather talk to everybody and see if we can't come to some arrangement. On Wednesday they came, and they wanted some money to get the cable fixed again. It is not a syndicate it is just normal people who need electricity to survive,” he said.
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