In the video circulating on social media, a man explains that in the Ga-Rankuwa community, members complain about load-shedding, but have failed to report an illegal connection at a transformer.
says it is attending to the exposed live wires that allegedly feed electricity to an informal settlement near the Ga-Rankuwa industrial area, north of Pretoria.
“Illegal connections involve unauthorised individuals connecting or tapping into the power grid or transformer, in this case, without approval from the service provider.”She said Eskom had employed various measures to avert equipment failures that led to unplanned and extended outages affecting law-abiding, paying customers and community service points such as healthcare and education facilities, businesses, and the economy at large.
“Communities in areas with illegal connections tend to become hostile towards our technicians when they remove these wires.”
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