Wires swing like washing lines from the bungalows to the shacks.
Long black wires hang like washing lines from poles and on the busy footpath across an empty field between the bungalows of Gunguluza in Kariega and the neighbouring informal settlement which is home to about 2,000 shack dwellers.
The municipality is currently installing electricity meter boxes in the bungalows with four large transformers and dozens of electricity poles. Meanwhile, people living in the informal settlement just metres from the bungalows are complaining that theirhave been ignored for nearly four years. Many have now resorted to making illegal connections from the bungalows.
“We are afraid of people using illegal connections because they steal our electricity in broad daylight. They even swear at us. We watch them steal our electricity because there’s nothing we can do,” said an elderly woman who did not want to give her name. People gather in the street in Area 11 last week after a small transformer exploded and a pole caught alight. that the municipality had failed to explain to shack dwellers, who have been waiting for years, when they will get electricity.
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