Each time the Matsila Community Development Farm was struck by a power outage, many of the 500 workforce were forced to down tools and go home, leading to an interruption in production and earnings.
The constant blackouts were caused either by load shedding or when Eskom cut off the supply owing to non-payment of the steep electricity bill.
“At some point we were owing Eskom around R300,000. But load shedding was also a major problem, it was hitting us really hard,” says Chief Livhuwani Matsila, who heads the Matsila royal family in Limpopo.
Traditional leader Chief Livhuwani Matsila is leading efforts to get his village in Limpopo to switch to solar energy to avoid rising electricity costs and power outages. The community farm he runs recently switched to solar energy. (Photo: Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
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