Siya Transformer programme comes to Ratanda

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi is expected to lead the Siya Transformer programme in the Lesedi Local Municipality.

This is an initiative by the provincial government to engagements with various communities without electricity and facilitating the process of getting them reconnected back to the grid.

Premier Lesufi will hold an engagement with community members in Ratanda on Wednesday (December 20) on the province’s interventions to address power challenges in the area, including the replacement and maintenance of broken down and
vandalised transformers, billing and debt management as well as theft of critical infrusctucture.

The country is faced with an energy crisis and townships are the most affected.

Most communities are plagued by illegal connections, vandalism and prolonged loadshedding and unplanned outages.

To add to it, most people do not have access to communication channels that timeously inform them on local power interruptions.

These communities like Braaamfischer, Ivory Park, Kagiso, Swaneville, Sebokeng and Emdeni in Soweto, have been left with filly functional transformers that have restored their dignity in bringing their power back to their households.

Power programme gets mixed reactions

ActionSA Encourages Residents to Accept Gauteng Premier Lesufi’s Transformers but to Vote for Change in the coming general elections.

The party’s Regional Chairperson in Lesedi Webster Kutoane says these grand gestures are all an attempt to meet all their empty promises and fix issues that they have broken and allowed to be destroyed under their reign over the last 30 years.

“We are aware this is all in their effort to fool us,” he said.

In the name of progress, the party stated it will continues to welcome these grand programmes to ensure that residents continue to receive what they so rightfully deserve from the government, which they were meant to receive years ago.