Generators power double-story houses

Residents irked after two years of darkness

Dozens of homeowners in a section of Naudeville suburb in Welkom in the Free State have been living without electricity for more than two years.

The new settlement, a few kilometres from the Welkom CBD, resembles a picture of a typical middle-class neighbourhood in the middle of a mining town with a receding economy. ..

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