City Power warns its infrastructure will crumble without R200 prepaid surcharge

Jan

Who's the Boss?
Staff member
Joined
May 24, 2010
Messages
14,106
Reaction score
12,226
Location
The Rabbit Hole
City Power warns its infrastructure will crumble without R200 prepaid surcharge

City Power board chair Bonolo Ramokhele says the municipal power utility's infrastructure will crumble if it scraps the R200 prepaid electricity surcharge implemented on 1 July 2024, Eyewitness News reports.

Despite this, the City of Johannesburg's council is set to convene soon to debate and vote on scrapping the fixed fee.
 
Start spending money wisely and force JMPD to patrol vulnerable areas where vandalism is costing millions.

These idiots, have also not paid heed to Eskoms very real issue, that as electricty prices go up, and up, and up. People are using less and less and less, of their service. Sales are literally plummeting.

But this is Africa ... :(
 
So what happened to the money that was stolen... Now the citizens must pay for it... They will need to find another way than to tax the people for SA for there mistakes....
 
You expect us to believe this when the prepaid electricity charge was meant to have included the cost of maintaining the network and you have been charging post paid customers fixed rates to also maintain the network? As I have said time and again, despite there being freeloaders and electricity being stolen, the collection of enough money has never been an issue, it has always been spending it frivolously, theft, corruption, needless waste, top heavy employment, etc, etc.
 
Stop saying R200. it's not R200 it's R230, we the end user have to pay R230.
The old age pensioners are paying R230

Electricity though should be VAT exempt
 
BS, it's because the higher tariffs don't cover it anymore due to people using less. Because it's expensive, the whole point of prepaid is to be able to manage spend, now you're slapping on R230 before a person even gets credit.
It's like if Vodacom took off R100 for contract fees on every prepaid customer at the start of the month cause shame the contract users shouldn't pay for everything. Even though you're already forcing contract customers to pay CLIP which prepaid doesn't.
 
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter