Dark days will soon be over for more than 50 rural households in Thahari village in Ward 8 of Mutale.

The construction phase of an electrification project started during the past week.

The Mutale Local Municipality (MLM)has set aside R1 million for the electrification of Thahari village, said the spokesperson for MLM, Mr Thiathu Ravhura. “We told our communities in Thahari that our government was ready to change the lives of rural people for the better,” said Ravhura.

Thahari was left in the dark, while some nearby communities in Shakadza and Tshokotshoko recently received electricity. The village’s community liaison officer, Mr Owen Nemangaya, was over the moon to learn that electrification of his village has now started.

Nemangaya said the electrification project in his village had changed the life of poor, rural, unemployed community members for the better, as more than ten people were hired to dig the holes for the electricity poles. Without electricity, “life is a nightmare, because we were forced to use candles and paraffin lamps,” added Nemangaya.

The councillor for Ward 8, Mr Gilbert Netshisaulu, was excited that the municipality had remembered his ward in their long-awaited electrification project, which will not only benefit communities, but even schools and churches around the area.