Informal and formal settlement dwellers are at each others’ throats in Mamelodi East‚ Pretoria.
Last night informal dwellers petrol-bombed several houses belonging to their neighbours following a tiff over electricity.
Eskom disconnected illegal connections at the informal settlement so the residents retaliated by tampering with a transformer at Mahube Valley‚ so that everyone in the area would be without electricity.
The situation is described as tense this morning with some roads blocked.
Mamelodi poor turn on each other over electricity charges
Informal and formal settlement dwellers are at each others’ throats in Mamelodi East‚ Pretoria.
Last night informal dwellers petrol-bombed several houses belonging to their neighbours following a tiff over electricity.
Eskom disconnected illegal connections at the informal settlement so the residents retaliated by tampering with a transformer at Mahube Valley‚ so that everyone in the area would be without electricity.
The situation is described as tense this morning with some roads blocked.
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