Dark days will be over for more than 171 households in Musina’s Nancefield Extensions 9 and 10, thanks to the Vhembe District municipality’s commitment to change life for the better for poor people. Nancefield Extensions 9 and 10 was established in 2007, after the Musina local municipality demolished the former Sehlangenkane informal settlement as another way of developing and building better RDP houses. Some households have been without electricity since then and they were raising concerns that they were excluded in government’s plan for better services. The executive mayor of the Vhembe District Municipality, Cllr Falaza Mdaka, announced on Friday that he was determined to change the lives of people who voted them into office for the better and promised to start with the installation of electricity for residents of Extensions 9 and 10 in Musina. Mdaka was speaking at the Nancefield sports grounds on Friday during one of his public participation programmes (Imbizo), aiming to identify and analyze service delivery challenges. “This government declared 2010 as a year of action and as the third entire sphere of the government, we understand the needs of the poor people and we have to respond faster." According to him, the installation of electricity is expected to start very soon and said it was his wish for the households left without electricity to get it before the kick-off of the Fifa World Cup. Ward 5 Councilor in Musina local municipality Ms Evelyn Shirilele said she was over the moon that the district municipality had remembered the poor people of her area by electrifying the affected households. Shirilele is also a councilor responsible for gender issues and housing in Musina local municipality and said the affected and angry community members used to visit her and complained of being left in darkness. “I am stress-free from today, because no one will ever complain to me like before. We are willing to help poor people with the delivery of services, but people should also be patient with us to implement such services for them,” said Shirilele. Mdaka also accompanied the mayor of the Musina Local Municipality, Cllr Caroline Mahasela, and representatives of the Department of Public Works in planting trees as part of the Limpopo Greening Programme.