Is this the suburb with the worst electricity outages in South Africa?

[BusinessTech]

Is this the suburb with the worst electricity outages in South Africa?

Residents in Pimville, Soweto, say that they have been hit with over 160 power cuts in 60 days over June and July, with these outages occurring over and above the planned Eskom load shedding schedules.

 

[ConfusedR]

Soweto owes Eskom billions so they should be the worst.
Actually, they should be cutoff permanently.

And why are Africans using electricity when they want to decolonize everything.

 

[ShaunSA]

“In the Pimville area, Eskom has around 24,700 registered customers; however, 70% (about 17,300) of these customers do not buy electricity. The causes of power interruptions in Pimville are vandalism, cable theft and illegal connections, which result in an overloaded network,” he said.

Maybe they could start by paying for it

 

[thestaggy]

Pay!

 

[bwana]

You get what you pay for..

or is is you get what you vote for?

 

[pinball wizard]

In the Pimville area, Eskom has around 24,700 registered customers; however, 70% (about 17,300) of these customers do not buy electricity.

Go and **** yourselves. Cunts!

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Soon they will have uncapped electricity

 

[upup]

I know , when an transformer pops, eskom leaves it for 3 days, then go and remove all the ilegal stuff, then only switch back on.
Luckily they say if cyril promise to ..... then they will vote for what they always vote for.

 

[ToxicBunny]

So no, this isn't the suburb with the worst electricity outages in SA...

This is a suburb that is overloading its grid and not paying its fscking dues and causing shyte for the rest of South Africa... 70% of them are entitled twats.

 

[backstreetboy]

Lol suburb? It's a township...

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

You get what you pay for..

or is is you get what you vote for?

I nominate this for comment of the year!

 

[grok]

Only 160 power cuts in 60 days? I vote Eskom make it 180 the next 30 days..

 

[konfab]

“In the Pimville area, Eskom has around 24,700 registered customers; however, 70% (about 17,300) of these customers do not buy electricity. The causes of power interruptions in Pimville are vandalism, cable theft and illegal connections, which result in an overloaded network,” he said.

Eskom is acting with a typically racist neo-colonial mindset. They should simply leave the good people of Pimville to decolonise the electricity grid

 

[Vorastra]

Lol suburb? It's a township...

The majority of houses in the area seem to look like low-to-middle-income housing except for the Western side of the suburb which seems to be RDP housing.
Not bad for a township.

 

[Vorastra]

Eskom is acting with a typically racist neo-colonial mindset. They should simply leave the good people of Pimville to decolonise the electricity grid

Time to buy everyone a bicycle. There's a lot of peddling to do.

 

[The Trutherizer]

70% (about 17,300) illegal connections.

F me... And they complain? Now that's chance-f**kitry on a grand scale.
It's embarrassing really.

 

[Geoff.D]

You get what you pay for..

or is is you get what you vote for?

both

 

[backstreetboy]

The majority of houses in the area seem to look like low-to-middle-income housing except for the Western side of the suburb which seems to be RDP housing.
Not bad for a township.

It says township in the name... Soweto = South west townships

 

[Vorastra]

It says township in the name... Soweto = South west townships

And Cape Town has town in its name yet it's clearly much larger and now a major city.

 

[supersunbird]

It says township in the name... Soweto = South west townships

Well, its doesn't have many shacks, so are shacks a requirement for being called a "township"?