Ballooning electricity bill puts 84 disabled people in limbo

Gqeberhaâ s Lake Farm Centre for the intellectually disabled is desperately challenging a threat by the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality to cut its power supply if it does not pay an outstanding R740,000 electricity bill. The nonprofit centre says the threat is unfair, uncaring and illegal, and it has been trying for three years to engage with the city about the questionable spike in its electricity costs and the resultant ballooning arrears.