Once the gold-mining heart of Gauteng, Merafong City faces an economic meltdown as Eskom threatens to cut off the municipality’s electricity supply over nonpayment of millions of rands.
Eskom announced electricity supply would be interrupted from October 25 if the municipality did not pay its debt.
And it is not only Eskom the municipality owes money to.
The DA said Merafong owes Eskom R154-million and R60-million to Rand Water – figures the city council has disputed.
Carletonville, the municipality’s major town which in the 1960s was the modern symbol of a dynamic goldmining region, is the most affected by the crisis.
But other once-prosperous towns in the area will also suffer.
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