Soweto residents hoping municipal debt is written off
Joburg gets thousands of applications for debt rehabilitation
Felicity Mabelane has been struggling to pay her electricity account in full to the City of Johannesburg since 2010 and she is now in arrears for more than R32,000.
Mabelane, 54, a resident of Diepkloof Zone 4 in Soweto, is one of more than 2,000 householders in the township who have applied to the city for their debt to be written off as part of the council's debt rehabilitation programme. ..
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