Eskom dancing around illegal residential connection problem

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Eskom praising power thieves — while demanding 66% tariff hikes for paying customers

While over a quarter of Eskom's prepaid customers are stealing electricity and bleeding the utility dry, it wants to slap its law-abiding paying customers with exorbitant price hikes of 66% in the next three years.

The arrival of the key revision number (KRN) rollover deadline on 24 November 2024 confirmed that South Africa's main power utility is likely losing much more to electricity theft than its previous estimates had suggested.
 
We already know who is involved as the majority thief, we also know the ANC promised those who vote for it "Free everything" so this approach is to be considered normal for a party desperately clinging to power by the vote of the criminals it supports. Like it or not going off grid and leaving Eskom and the government to fail is the only rational way forward unless working with a criminal syndicate called the ANC is what you do.
 
"Another 1.84 million meters remained on KRN version 1 and are suspected of being electricity thieves."

One thing I know about the electricity issue is that trying to look at official figures is never going to give the true magnitude of the problem. The bulk of illegal connections are complete by pass and don't even buy 'illegal electrity tokens'. So the actual truth is, maybe almost half the country is not paying for electricity.
 
Before you have a go at Eskom, how many of you are zero buyers where movies, TV series and TV licenses are concerned…
-SABC and Multichoice
I am sure Jan will write up about this some other time, and we can argue about that then, but this article is specifically about electricity. So sometimes its ok not to say something if you have no meaningful contribution to make.
 
I am sure Jan will write up about this some other time, and we can argue about that then, but this article is specifically about electricity. So sometimes it’s ok not to say something if you have no meaningful contribution to make.
Or you could suck it up and read the next post. But no, you had to come in here and have a word.

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"Another 1.84 million meters remained on KRN version 1 and are suspected of being electricity thieves."

One thing I know about the electricity issue is that trying to look at official figures is never going to give the true magnitude of the problem. The bulk of illegal connections are complete by pass and don't even buy 'illegal electrity tokens'. So the actual truth is, maybe almost half the country is not paying for electricity.
This is why I laughed at ESKOM in the previous thread...2 million thieves...please, pull the other one. That's perhaps 5% of the actual theft and the only stat they can actually "measure".
 
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