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Grievances: Service delivery protests in areas such as Khayelitsha have become ‘a firmly entrenched social phenomenon’, with at least 193 occuring in 2022. Photos: Jaco Marais & David Harrison

Data shows that service delivery protests will increase, intensify in 2023

Electricity was the biggest cause and driver of service delivery protests in 2022

Eunice Masson

Pay up: Eskom’s power station looms over Hendrina in Mpumalanga. The state-owned entity is in a precarious financial position and is trying to recover money from municipalities. (Marco Longari/AFP)

ANDRE DE RUYTER

Eskom caught in debt trap

Eskom is appealing an interdict by the courts to stop it from interrupting power to municipalities that owe it billions of rands

Tshegofatso Mathe