EDITORIAL | Lesufi’s pandering to Soweto residents smacks of cheap political point-scoring
If Soweto residents’ electricity debt is to be written off, it should only be those who are genuinely too poor to pay for the utility
24 January 2023 - 20:30
Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi, who, importantly, is also the ANC’s chairperson in Gauteng, planted a politically seductive seed in the minds of his important constituency: electricity debt in Soweto could be cancelled soon...
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