Darkness prevails at Khunda village

By Kaizer Nengovhela

The residents of Khunda and Matshavhawe villages have been completely without electricity for several days now, with no explanation whatsoever offered by the Makhado Municipality as to where the problem might lie.

According to one of the residents of Matshavhawe, Mr Tendani Rambuda, they have been experiencing this extended blackout since Sunday evening (26 February). “The municipality promised to fix the problem, but we are still waiting. We don’t know what is happening and for how long it would last. We are not even sure whether they will honour their promise. It is a very challenging situation for us. Our children need to do homework, and we cannot continually use candles or a torch from a cellphone. Some of us have to prepare food for our kids at night.”

Rambuda said that the outage especially had a negative effect on the poorer families in the area. “Some of these families have not eaten a proper meal in three days.” He appealed to the municipality to