Eskom to restore power to Free State municipality after receiving R1.1m payment

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Ngwathe municipality, one of Eskom’s worst debtors, owes R1.89bn

Business owners and residents in Ngwathe municipality, which includes Parys and Vredefort, angry about power and water cutsEskom says it's working on restoring power in Ngwathe municipality. Picture: THAPELO MOREBUDI

“It’s been extremely hard, but the love and support from the community is keeping us going. Though we have backup power, as soon as we started having water problems we were worried. “We can’t keep the elderly in the dark so we had to do what we had to do to make them comfortable,” she said. Bed and breakfast owner Elize van Hosthuizen said it was difficult to meet the expectations of guests who had already checked in when the outage occurred.

“Why should we suffer when we have paid? I really wish we could do what other towns were able to do by getting a third party to manage the finances of the municipality to ensure that service providers like Eskom are paid on time,” she said. On Monday, the power utility announced it is working on restoring power in Ngwathe local municipality and it should be restored by midnight.“The payment will be allocated to repairs required to restore supply to Parys and Vredefort in the Free State after overloading on the Ngwathe electrical network tripped and damaged Eskom’s equipment on Friday, July 1,” Eskom said.

 

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