North Coast Courier
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20th May 2021
‘Izinyoka’ gets you illegally connected to KwaDukuza municipality’s electrical grid for R2 000
‘Izinyoka’ gets you illegally connected to KwaDukuza municipality’s electrical grid for R2 000
For a once-off fee of R1 000 or less, or for as much as R2 000, informal communities with no electricity can get connected to street lights and transformers to bring power to their shacks.
While KwaDukuza municipality has taken a strong stance to curb illegal electricity connections which have cost them millions in lost revenue, electrifying informal settlements is big business on the North Coast.
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