Deadline for EC towns to comment on planned power cuts

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Today is the deadline for comment and submissions from concerned parties and municipalities hoping to ensure that Eskom does not cut power to six Eastern Cape towns next week. 

The power utility warned last month that it would not supply electricity to four municipalities from next week if they failed to pay their outstanding accounts. 

The total monies owed is just less than 170 million rand. 

The Eastern Cape towns facing the very real prospect of a candle lit Christmas are  Burgersdorp, Steynsburg, Aliwal-North, Jansenville, Adelaide and Bedford.