Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that power outages have left some parts of Soweto without electricity for days, leaving thousands of residents stranded and businesspeople losing thousands of rands in profit;
2) further notes that residents and the business community in Soweto have raised serious anger and frustration because of the failure of Eskom and the City of Johannesburg to give them a proper explanation for the outages and plans to address the problem; and
3) calls on the City of Johannesburg and Eskom to address the problem and ensure that residents are kept abreast of measures to rectify the problem.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.