choosing Orange Farm and nDwaleni

Moses and Takalani have pointed out that both these townships have local authority structures and have begun putting street lighting in the formal RDP housing sections. The only areas without street lighting are the non-formal housing sections... the squatter camps.

They argued that there would be strong official opposition to solar street lighting if we focussed on installing them in these areas as the authorities are keen to make sure these areas are not serviced.

One of the ways around this problem is to pitch for the conversion of the current street lights to solar lighting.

Another way is to simply go ahead with local organizing committees in the squatter areas and make it explicit that they will have to manage the politics.

Alternatively we could focus our attention on "deep rural" traditional villages and build our firts street lights there.

Hmmm.....