Bring out the candles and buy the paraffin as power cuts could be a regular occurrence in Komani for the foreseeable future. This is according to Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM), which says areas around town may continue to…
Frustrated Van area residents crowded the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality technical services building last Tuesday, demanding a meeting with the director after having several power outages in the area since Sunday. The residents of the…
Rubber bullets and teargas were used to disperse Madeira Park residents who barricaded the N6 with burning tyres on Tuesday, in protest against a four-day power outage caused by the local authority’s decaying electricity network. The…
Residents of Komani Park are faced with yet another electricity outage after a cable blew up, affecting a section of the area. Earlier today, power to the area including Top Town was announced to have been restored by the Enoch Mgijima…
Residents and business owners were livid over power outages that affected most areas in Komani. The Rep reported (‘Electricity woes as winter creeps in’, July 5 2019) that an oil purification process which cost the Enoch Mgijima Local…
Residents in certain Komani areas are in the dark in more ways than one and they say the municipality neither gives answers nor do they care. The areas of Sabatha Dalindyebo, Parkvale, Popcorn Valley, Victoria Park and Newvale have been…
A cat was reportedly electrocuted on the Ebden Street sub-station and caused power outages in several areas connected to it in Komani. Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) administrator Adre Bartis said Ebden, Griffiths, Prince Alfred…
SERVICE DELIVERY: Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality has appoint a company called Actom to do repairs on the faulty Ezibeleni transformer. The company came to get the transformer today, it is unknown when the said repairs would be…
The Mlungisi substation got hit by lightning during a storm yesterday afternoon leaving several areas connected to it without power. Enoch Mgijima municipality spokesman Gcobani Msindwana indicated Westbourne, Melton Gardens and…
