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Councillor disputes she authorised removal of box

Residents in the dark despite buying own transformer

A group of Johannesburg residents are fuming after they bought a transformer and restored electricity in their neighbourhood, only for Eskom to come and remove it, leaving them in the dark.

In May, a transformer failed in Finetown, in the south of Johannesburg, leaving 85 households without electricity...

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