The inability of poor Sowetan residents to meet their electricity bills has resulted in many having their domestic power supply cut off by national service provider, Eskom. A coalition of unreconstructed communists, retirees and college students created the Soweto Electrical Crisis Committee (SECC) nearly a year ago. Chairman Trevor Ngwane - a former ANC municipal council member - recruited a friend, a laid-off Eskom repairman, to train volunteers how to reconnect a power supply. Since then, ...read more
The inability of poor Sowetan residents to meet their electricity bills has resulted in many having their domestic power supply cut off by national service provider, Eskom. A coalition of unreconstructed communists, retirees and college students created the Soweto Electrical Crisis Committee (SECC) nearly a year ago. Chairman Trevor Ngwane - a former ANC municipal council member - recruited a friend, a laid-off Eskom repairman, to train volunteers how to reconnect a power supply. Since then, Operation Khanyisa - which means "to light" in the Zulu language - has unlawfully restored electricity to about 3,000 homes.
