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LIVE WIRE: An illegal electrical connection snakes down a telephone pole in Stoney Drift. Residents say they are constantly dealing with such illegal connections despite numerous efforts from the municipalityPicture: MATTHEW FIELD
ELECTRICITY

Illegal electricity connections still plague community one year later

Back in 2019, the GO! & Express reported on a large number of illegal electricity connections that had sprung up in Stoney Drift. One year later, it seems that little has changed. “I’ve been staying here for the past five or six years,…

  • Matthew Field
DAMMING EVIDENCE: Piles of litter fill the First Creek River which, when combined with the raw sewage flowing into it, makes for an unpleasant sightPictures: MATTHEW FIELD
ILLEGAL CONNECTIONS

Stoney Drift “under siege”

“These people are under siege.” This was how the DA’s BCM chairperson Vaughan Holmes described the East London suburb of Stoney Drift. With a triple threat of pollution, illegal electricity connections and a high crime rate, such a…

  • Matthew Field
BCM

Illegal electricity connections kill 63

Sixty-three people in informal settlements have been killed by illegal electricity connections in the Buffalo City (BCM) Metro in the past three years. The most recent case was in Mzamomhle on Wednesday when a 25-year-old man allegedly…

  • TimesLIVE