City of Joburg slams electricity outage in Soweto

[ellyally]

To be fair, you are not charged when you get load shedding

My monthly service charges disagree with you

 

[Sinbad]

Let's not forget that coj will cut people in richer suburbs off if they can't get to your meter, nevermind not paying. Hypocritical piece of dog excrement

 

[Milano]

To be fair, you are not charged when you get load shedding

To be completely transparent, you are charged. Besides monthly service charges, you pay:

- monthly rates on your property which differ according to serviced or unserviced properties.
- income tax covers various departments which provide supportive and maintenance services to utilities.

Besides being charged, there are costs:

- higher costs to re-heat geyser after loadshedding.
- higher costs to operate all other thermostat-controlled devices to optimum energy levels, fridges, air-cons etc
- losses, including but not limited to spoiled food, damaged appliances, loss of productivity, and so forth.

Plus higher power unit electricity prices to follow.