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[TOP STORY] City of Joburg’s plan to minimise need for load reduction

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‘Load reduction is the last resort on the part of the city, we need to ensure that we deploy other mechanisms that will relieve the pressure and those measures would obviously have to do with the illegal connections and the cuts that we will be doing,’ says City of Johannesburg mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda.

11 Jun 2024 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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