Angry residents of a Joburg suburb took their grievances to Eskom’s main office after being without electricity for too long.

A general view of the headquarter of the embattled South African main electricity provider ESKOM

 

A problem at a power station left the residents without power for a week, TimesLIVE reported. A woman from Buccleuch showed her anger at the lack of power by dumping raw chicken at Eskom’s headquarters. The video of her protest, shared by KayaFM, became a hit on social media.

As she tosses some hardbody chickens near a sign that says “rotting food”, the woman vents about her chicken going bad. Other residents who are also mad join her outside Eskom’s offices with signs that say: “We want power”.

Balwin Properties went to court and stopped the residents of Munyaka Luxury Estate from protesting at their estate.

EWN reported that residents protested for a whole day on Thursday, 18 May, because of the lack of power. They blocked the entrance to their estate and cooked meat on a fire. The court ordered them not to stop anyone who had the right to enter the estate and gave the police the power to make sure they followed the order.

@amatuli said: “I think we must all do this and bring rotten food and all broken appliances due to load-shedding.”

@hlubizer said: “It’s about bloody time. I can join this anytime. We’ve been too nice to these moegoes since 2007.”

@ADS_ZAR said: “This protest thing has levels, others loot during protests, and others throw away their own food.”

@Poison082 said: “This needs to be done at the offices of the ministers and the president, the ones that have allowed and put us in the situation we are in.”

@HoDeinCT said: “I really wonder why no one has ever sued Eskom about the rotten things.”

The residents said Balwin Properties was responsible, but the company pointed the finger at Eskom. They posted videos on social media showing their anger at the power cut. SowetanLIVE said they had been without electricity since Sunday, 14 May.