Buffalo City Metro residents who can't afford to buy electricity can register for the municipality’s indigent support programme to receive six kilolitres of water and a free 50 units of electricity - an equivalent R652.90 - to their accounts once a month.
BCM has urged poor residents to register for free water and electricity through the Indigent Registration Campaign across 40 identified villages in the metro.
BCM spokesperson Samkelo Ngwenya said the municipality began the process on Wednesday and it will continue until November 28.
“The metro has identified more than 40 locations that will be part of the Rural Indigent Campaign as part of its mandate of improving the lives of the citizens of the city and living up to its 'A City Hard at Work' mission.”..