Four days of back and forth with Johannesburg's City Power after her building's supply box was vandalised, leads Vanessa Banton to believe that there is nothing more disconnected than the company that is meant to be providing electricity.
Vandalism is causing chaos across Johannesburg, and is often a mission to get mission to get reconnected, writes the author.to believe that there is nothing more disconnected than the company that is meant to be providing electricity.
There's nothing like waking up on a Monday morning to what you think is an unscheduled power outage. Other residents in the building you live in share the incredulity. So, you do the usual thing - log the call and encourage other residents living in the building to also log a call, all in the hope that more calls will inspire urgency in someone at City Power, Johannesburg to leap into action to help solve the problem.
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