Restore the power grid | Protea North residents living in the dark

JOHANNESBURG - Protea North residents in Soweto have been living without electricity for months.

Eskom says the outage is due to a faulty transformer.

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Because only 30 percent of households pay for electricity, the utility will not be fixing the issue.

Soweto also owes Eskom over R2-billion, with over 60 percent not paying for electricity they consume.