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Civilization is Too Technical & Complicated for ANC as Residents Are Charged for Air in Water Pipes!

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Socialist Elitism in South Africa has finally achieved its aim of charging people for air, literally! Residents of Vanderbijlpark & Emfuleni are paying exorbitant bills for air coming through the water pipes, instead of water. All this because the minority are excluded from managing their own affairs, utilities and resources, so they are at the mercy of the incompetence, standards and values of the parasitic ANC and its self serving cadres & supporters.

Residents of Vanderbijlpark can expect huge water bills at the end of the month, even though in many cases water does not even come out of the pipes because there are frequent water outages in the area, and parts of the town are currently without water.

Peter Verbeek, the DA councilor for the SW5 and SW6 area in Vanderbijlpark, who is currently experiencing water interruptions, told Netwerk24 that it is actually air that enters the water pipes, that makes the water bills
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Court deals Soweto residents who wants to pay a flat tarrif of R150 a month for electricity a blow by striking case off the roll

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Soweto owes R20bn to power provider Eskom, but residents of the township only want to pay R150 a month for their power. Mpho Sesedinyane, ANC councilor and chair of the South African National Civic Organization (Sanco) in Soweto, feels that R150 is a fair amount and that, given the state of the economy, the residents can only afford to pay this much a month for power.

However, Eskom rejected the proposal of a fixed power tariff of R150 per month for electricity. Eskom spokesperson Reneilwe Semenya said this proposal by community leaders in Soweto was unrealistic and residents had to pay for what they consumed. He also referred to the Johannesburg High Court which on Tuesday rejected an application to restore power supply to Soweto and allow residents to pay a flat rate for power.

Soweto owes R20 billion of the R420 billion owed to the Johannesburg metro power supplier. Semenya believes that if a fixed power tariff is set, it will certainly give rise to
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R100 – that’s how much Soweto residents want to pay Eskom for electricity each month

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The township is said to owe Eskom R18 billion in unpaid electricity bills.

This week, Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation (LLHRF) is finishing up court papers in a bid to haul Eskom to the South Gauteng High Court over electricity disconnections.

LLHRF’s president King Sibiya said they want an interim court order forcing Eskom to restore electricity to about 250 households.

Sibiya said they also want to force Eskom to get into negotiations with residents over the next 18 to 24 months to discuss a flat rate of R100 for energy consumption. “There are currently about 250 houses without electricity. While the whole area owes Eskom, we think the ones whose electricity has been switched off is more urgent.

“We want to kill the culture of non-payment in Soweto. We can’t divorce ourselves from Eskom. A R100 flat rate from those who haven’t been paying is better than nothing.”

He said the majority of people in the town
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SA is collapsing and the bad conditions will put residents at the same level as Zimbabwe’s people

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Political analysts say that conditions in South Africa are now deteriorating by the day, and the bad conditions are now putting residents at the same level as in Zimbabwe.

The police service that has lost thousands of rounds of ammunition without any action being taken against the culprits indicates the dire security situation that prevails.

The country’s Defense Force was evaluated by experts about two years ago and it was found that its hitting power is now no better than it was in the 1930s when the the Air Force had more pilots than are currently employed after the best ones have already left the country.

The prospect that the government now wants to activate the so-called “National Health Plan” means that two things are waiting for the Westerners in the country:

That is, they will eventually no longer have a Medical Aid, and secondly, the health plan will follow the same route as Eskom, Denel, SABC, SAA, and others that are und
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#Blackprivilege: Soweto residents want to pay a flat rate of R100 per month for unlimited electricity – We all do!!

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While Eskom is drowning in debt and struggling to make ends meet, Soweto residents say they want their debt written off and to only pay R100 per month for unlimited electricity.

Eskom currently supplies 135,000 Soweto residents with power, but only 12% of these customers pay for electricity.

This non-payment has seen Soweto’s debt to Eskom increase from R3.6 billion in 2014 to its current level of R18 billion.

To alleviate this debt burden, Eskom is threatening to disconnect non-paying customers, remove illegal connections, and move more houses to prepaid electricity.

Soweto residents fighting back
Soweto residents, however, are having none of Eskom’s debt-collection and disconnection plans and are demanding that the power utility writes off their debt.

These residents argue that they cannot afford to pay for electricity, let alone pay off the money they owe to Eskom.

Instead, the residents proposed that they be ch
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Empty promises leave Free State residents fuming, Mayor’s house burnt down due to frustration on water crisis

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Mayor Mamiki Mokoena, of the Nketoana municipality, which includes Reitz, Petrus Steyn, Arlington and Lindley in the Free State, house in Petrus Steyn has been destroyed after angry residents burnt it down to show their anger towards the shortage of water in the areas.

Residents’ anger over the ongoing water crisis has apparently boiled over after no running water has been available for a week. Mokoena allegedly arranged for two tankers to deliver water to her father, Benedict Nakedi, over the weekend for an alleged family gathering. This while the rest of the township’s residents had to cope without water. These actions apparently contributed to the residents’ anger.

Heleen Müller, FF Plus councilor in Petrus Steyn says that the water crisis was apparently caused by a broken water pump that was temporarily replaced by a smaller water pump that could not supply the necessary amount of water. She argues that the crisis was brought to
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Cyber crooks try to hold Johannesburg’s City Power to ransom after a malicious program found its way on to the computer system and network

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After a cyber-attack that debilitated its servers, Johannesburg’s City Power says it has successfully restored electricity vending within hours of the security breach being identified.

Some residents of Johannesburg were left in the dark as a ransomware attack took out the City’s power servers, preventing residents from being able to purchase and upload electricity units.

The attack was identified in the early hours of Thursday 25 July, according to spokesperson Isaac Mangena. Starting at 8.30am on the 25th, City Power’s official Twitter account, @CityPowerJHB, issued a series of tweets explaining the situation.

According to Adam Oxford, a freelance technology journalist, “Ransomware is a type of cyber attack in which a malicious program finds its way on to a computer system or network, and the damaging payload of that program will be to destroy data or encrypt it to the point where it is irretrievable.”

The attacked company is
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Joburg is a danger zone! Residents are exposed to dangerously high levels of uranium creating grave concern over the health impact of the mining industry on city-dwellers

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Research conducted by North West University research professor Frank Winde in conjunction with scientists from Germany found high levels of uranium exposure in Johannesburg residents, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Hair samples collected from Johannesburg residents found that exposure to dangerous chemicals and substances was a major problem in certain areas, and could be attributed to mine tailings dams, which store by-products of mining operations.

Winde found that levels of uranium in Johannesburg residents were similar to those found in European uranium miners, creating grave concern over the health impact of the mining industry on city-dwellers.

Samples were collected from barbers in the West Rand and the south of Johannesburg, with the results indicating that the toxicity was widespread, affecting areas with a high concentration of gold mines as well as suburbs far away from mining operations.

SA Medical Research Council
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ANC-managed Victor Khanye municipality apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m to electricity – residents now demand to know who are the culprits stealing all the money

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“We all pay our municipal bills regularly, who are stealing all the money”, is the question now asked by Delmas and local residents after it became known that millions of rand are in arrears on water and electricity.

The Victor Khanye municipality, which includes Delmas, apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m to electricity.

This explains why residents demands to know where the money goes, and who might steal it while the residents are the victims.

Sundra, Rietkol and Eloff are also classified under the municipality, and are currently struggling because water supply is limited due to payment default.

However, financial experts say the Rand Water Council is equally guilty because they had to cut off the water with the first month’s account not paid by the municipality, or have given at least 24 hours notice that it would be cut off as payment made immediately.

They say this is also the reason why
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Fill up your water buckets and containers, 54-hour water shutdown looming for Joburg residents

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Level 2 water restrictions imposed in Johannesburg – residents will be with limited water for two days from next Monday, Joburg Water has advised.

Rand Water, which is the city’s main bulk water supplier, plans a major shutdown on June 24 that will affect all reservoirs supplying water to the city, Environment and Infrastructure Services MMC Nico de Jager said in a statement on Tuesday.

The shutdown will last for 54 hours.

“The shutdown is on the B11 pipeline to install a 2 500mm butterfly valve from Lethabo to Vereeniging pumping station and this will result in the limited water supply to all Rand Water customers,” said De Jager.

He said the shutdown did not mean that there would be no water during the 54-hour shutdown period, but that some areas may experience a shortage of water or low pressure.

In April, a similar planned shutdown was postponed, News24 reported.

Johannesburg Water has appealed to
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Ramaphosa promises 1 million houses and tablets for Alexandra residents over next five years during campaign tour

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Cyril Ramaphosa has promised the residents of Alexandra one million houses over the next five years, as well as tablets for schools.

The president made the ambitious pledge while speaking to a crowd at Alexandra stadium. Ramaphosa also threw shade at Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba, saying that Mashaba was afraid of the Alexandra residents.

Ramaphosa’s speech in Alexandra came as part of his campaign tour. He addressed a crowd of thousands of Alexandra residents, and told them that a major government project to renew Alexandra would be implemented. This project was initially launched while Thabo Mbeki was president, but has since stalled due to allegations of theft and corruption. Ramaphosa also weighed in on the recent Alexandra protests. He said that Herman Mashaba was afraid of the Alexandra residents and that was why he did not want to personally address them.

Mashaba reportedly responded by blaming the township’s problems on t
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Angry Residents blocked Roads as sporadic protests flare up in Alexandra for third straight day regarding no service delivery – Still voting ANC during the elections?

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Residents of Alexandra have once again taken to the streets, calling on City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba to address them

This is the third straight day community members have been protesting in the area.

On Wednesday, angry residents blocked roads leading into the area with rubble, burning tyres and rocks as they led the #AlexShutDown demonstrations.

On Thursday, a small group of residents started protesting again before suspending their action until Friday, calling on Mashaba to address them at a mass meeting expected to take place at 10:00 in the township.

At around 06:00 tyres could be seen burning on several streets, preventing traffic from flowing through.

Many people, including school pupils, were seen turning back, as they feared leaving the area.

On Thursday, Mashaba released a statement challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa to accompany him to the area. This came after the president called on Mashaba to att
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