The community of Eldorado Park is at its wits’ end over the municipality’s repeated failure to restore electricity in certain parts of the Johannesburg township.
Eldorado Park protests: Here’s what we know
On Tuesday, Extension 1 residents took led a march to a sub-station in the region that, for more than 12 days, has been faulty and not delivering power to households in the area.
According to reporters on the ground, Eldorado Park residents were promised that electricity would be restored last week, but this never happened. Communication from the municipality indicated that power would be restored on Monday evening but, once again, this never came to be.
On Tuesday, frustrated locals took matters to the streets, blocking key roads in the township, and calling on public representatives to address them about the prolonged electricity issue.
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Similar scenes were witnessed last week Thursday, according to EWN. A group of residents from Devland, in Eldorado Park, led a picket, demanding alternative sources of power from the municipality after enduring cold weather in the dark for over a week.
“Freedom Park, they don’t pay, we are paying here. We are staying in the properties over there and they can’t even provide generators for us,” one resident told the cited publication.
Public order police were at the scene of the protests, monitoring the situation for any spikes of unrest, at the time this article was published.