METRO MATTERS | Elderly Bay woman left in dark for four weeks

Metro accused of a lack of urgency in addressing plight of pensioner whose distribution board burnt out

A power surge has left an elderly woman in Nelson Mandela Bay’s northern areas without electricity for four weeks after her distribution board blew up.

Dorah Gouws, 84, initially cooked for herself and her two grandchildren outside on an open fire after the power to her Jacksonville home went off during the ensuing fire...

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