Eskom developing new prepaid electricity vending system

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Eskom cracks down on R2 billion per month theft

Eskom has said that while working on a new vending system for selling prepaid electricity tokens, it has fortified the existing one to prevent further theft, which it previously said amounts to roughly R2 billion per month.

This is according to the state utility's executive committee members, who briefed Parliament's standing committee on public accounts on Thursday.
 
Guess that key change didn't fix the problem... Problem is, once again no active policing. People will do things like this cause there is no consequences, theft of electricity is seen as a petty crime.
Start actually policing and you'll see less crime.
 
throwing more money at a problem, typical eskom response and why they want to do some load shedding and raise prices for their dumb ideas.

fix load shedding first, there should be ZERO Load shedding, ZERO, none, zip,nada,
 
Lupus said:
Guess that key change didn't fix the problem... Problem is, once again no active policing. People will do things like this cause there is no consequences, theft of electricity is seen as a petty crime.
Start actually policing and you'll see less crime.
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Active policing is a myth in this country and wouldn't change much anyway, People rightly see Eskom as a predatory business that has taken them to the cleaners for 30 years and counting. They see it as entitlement based on the ANC (You know, those morons who have brought this country to its knee's) our law enforcement in general is also seen as monetized and will always suffer from push back, the days of people blindly listening to what they are told are over.
 
Seems to me that ESKOm has once again claimed fame for doing nothing, the machines are the lowest hanging of fruit, no one needs to even get out of their chair to do this. How about they actually get off their lazy rear ends and go after the millions of people who are illegally connected, or even the ANC that has promised so many they would get free stuff.
 
Lupus said:
Guess that key change didn't fix the problem... Problem is, once again no active policing. People will do things like this cause there is no consequences, theft of electricity is seen as a petty crime.
Start actually policing and you'll see less crime.
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I didn't think the Key change would make any difference... they hadn't cleaned their own house by that point, so the "ghost vending machines" were likely updated along with all the others anyway.
 
when your own employees bevark your current system and you dont know how to fix it...so you have to get a new system that they will end up bevarking again...

then continue to demand huge annual increases from the south african public because you cant get your house in order......
 
akescpt said:
when your own employees bevark your current system and you dont know how to fix it...so you have to get a new system that they will end up bevarking again...

then continue to demand huge annual increases from the south african public because you cant get your house in order......
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The way ANC Africa rolls ...
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Yeah, my blood pressure is already to high. I don't need another week in a ward, to get it back, to sane, manageable levels.
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Well at least it's normally the type of thing you'd see in a good joke. Like... The preposterous punch line.

Except for us it's reality. R2bn reality.
 
Bad Ballie said:
Active policing is a myth in this country and wouldn't change much anyway, People rightly see Eskom as a predatory business that has taken them to the cleaners for 30 years and counting. They see it as entitlement based on the ANC (You know, those morons who have brought this country to its knee's) our law enforcement in general is also seen as monetized and will always suffer from push back, the days of people blindly listening to what they are told are over.
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I'm all for active policing, but that mostly reduces opportunistic crime, I'm not sure how that would help with this particular case.

They have an old vending system that was bumrushed out over a decade ago, and likely has received little to no improvement since then. It has insufficient access control/policies/auditing and is wide open for abuse.

Classic case of someone deciding that the duct tape solution is good enough, engineering time for maintenance/rebuild is expensive, better to lose R2bil a month to theft.
 
Eskom operations and maintenance manager Daphne Mokwena previously said zero buyers thieves caused the utility to lose roughly R2 billion in monthly revenue.
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FTFY
What woke marketing department came up with the term "zero buyers" for thieves.
This is taking political correctness too far.

Any normal company that was losing R2 billion per month would have implemented a fix many years ago.
Q. Who can afford to lose R2 billion per month?
A. A government SOE.

Eskom not interested in fixing the problem.
They can just raise prices of electricity to make up for the losses
They can ask for a bailout from taxpayers (hence the request to increase VAT by 2%)
Much easier than fixing the actual problem.
 
Eskom developing...

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