CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town is making efforts to protect its infrastructure from power cuts.
It recently approved a budget increase to upgrade and protect the city's sewage system from blackouts.
This will be an amount of up to R400-million next year and R500-million in 2025.
Cape Town was forced to close some of its beaches during the festive season, due to sewage spillage.
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"This budget is mainly aimed at protecting our infrastructure from the effects of load-shedding, our infrastructure is taking a beating," said mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.
"We have to buy hundreds of generators that require hundreds of litres of diesel, this comes at enormous cost to the public."