Power to the Ngwathe local municipality in the Free State has been restored but Eskom has warned there is still a risk of overloading.
without electricity and knock-on water outages while the municipality worked to come up with the cash to honour its promise to pay for the repairs.Content hosted by iono.fm
The embattled power utility said it had been warning the municipality about the danger of overloading since 2018 but the “municipality has not taken the required action to mitigate this risk”. Eskom has urged the affected communities to protect the power system from overloading and stressed that Monday's repairs only addressed the restoration of supply.
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