Kai !Garib: Inside a municipality’s meltdown
The Northern Cape town of Kenhardt could stand in for any number of small towns in South Africa: erratic power, water cuts, issues around sewerage and refuse removal. It would seem to be yet another example of systemic failure in platteland municipalities
19 October 2023 - 05:00
The irony isn’t lost on residents of the Northern Cape town of Kenhardt: construction of a R16.4bn solar power plant on their doorstep is almost complete, but the townspeople sit without electricity for days. And that’s on top of Eskom load-shedding.
For residents of the small town, power cuts are nothing new. ..
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