The residents are demanding that they be charged a flat rate of R150 per month for electricity.
Eskom claims that illegal connections are responsible for most of the outages.
The people of Soweto dispute this.
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Taxis and buses have taken detours to avoid the protesters.
The outages in Soweto are in addition to load shedding the rest of the country is currently experiencing.
This has made life in Soweto very difficult.
Eskom reported that they have dispatched technicians to the affected areas but illegal connections are partly responsible. Photo credit: @EskomSouthAfricaSource: Facebook
Stage 2 loadshedding was implemented earlier this week and is expected to conclude on Friday, 4 May.
There have also been cases of power not returning at the end of the scheduled time.
He explained that one of the reasons is a lack of maintenance dating back to the apartheid regime.
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