Power to the people: now for proof of concept

20 June 2021 - 00:02
By hilary joffe AND Hilary Joffe

The first electric lights in SA were lit up by the Kimberley municipality in the 1880s, and in the early days of electricity the power generators were the municipalities and the burgeoning mining companies

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