Why Eskom cut Soweto power

[Petec]

It started in Kenya and chased us down to Rhodesia. Then my family was chased down to SA. Now the same sad script is unfolding here.

My family were not land baron overlords. We were poor and worked on the railways, helping install the glorious infrastructure that now lies in rot and ruin.

Same here in SA... We managed to grow to middle class status, all the while saving as best we could, working our asses off and not having hordes of children beyond our means. In 4 generations, we now number a family of 7.

We did our best, as did hundreds of thousands of other families... All colours and creeds. Through each their own struggles and hardships.

And now?

We have a political clique vomiting their excess all over what we helped build and fight for. They are narcissist, psychopathic pigs feeding at the trough of greed and corruption. They are unaccountable. They are burning this country and they cast blame on everyone and everything but themselves.

 

[Sl8er]

Why would installing prepaid boxes make a difference? Those can easily be tampered with? All they'll be doing is making it easier for people to steal their electricity, not? (I guess this would eliminate all the wires in the streets / prevent deaths due to tampering....)

OR are these prepaid boxes tamper-proof?

 

[ellyally]

Why would installing prepaid boxes make a difference? Those can easily be tampered with? All they'll be doing is making it easier for people to steal their electricity, not? (I guess this would eliminate all the wires in the streets / prevent deaths due to tampering....)

OR are these prepaid boxes tamper-proof?

As far as I know, the smart meters being installed JHB side(which are both post and prepaid) have an alarm. The second it is opened/tampered with etc, a signal is sent to CoJ

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

We have a political clique vomiting their excess all over what we helped build and fight for. They are narcissist, psychopathic pigs feeding at the trough of greed and corruption. They are unaccountable. They are burning this country and they cast blame on everyone and everything but themselves.

I agree with you completely.

It's not just this bunch of wa..err..politicians though. It's all of them.

 

[wizardofid]

It started in Kenya and chased us down to Rhodesia. Then my family was chased down to SA. Now the same sad script is unfolding here.

My family were not land baron overlords. We were poor and worked on the railways, helping install the glorious infrastructure that now lies in rot and ruin.

Same here in SA... We managed to grow to middle class status, all the while saving as best we could, working our asses off and not having hordes of children beyond our means. In 4 generations, we now number a family of 7.

We did our best, as did hundreds of thousands of other families... All colours and creeds. Through each their own struggles and hardships.

And now?

We have a political clique vomiting their excess all over what we helped build and fight for. They are narcissist, psychopathic pigs feeding at the trough of greed and corruption. They are unaccountable. They are burning this country and they cast blame on everyone and everything but themselves.

Um what does the above have to do, with disconnecting or cutting power to soweto ? Sweet bugger all. What does politics have to do with people having illegal connections or simply not paying.Sweet bugger all.Would illegal connections be any different with another political party in control ? The fact that they robbing their own elected government blind, the "culture" has always been, why pay when you can get it for free.

No amount of new political changes in the landscape is going to change the mentality, welded the light post shut, "I will just steal my power from some where else."

Kinda ironic that blame gets pushed to the ruling party as the reason there is illegal connections and not paying.It's this mentality I would gladly beat with a baseball.In 2002 there were 1.2 million connections in soweto, and another 600 000 planned for the year.You can't blame eskom for the lack of infrastructure as the main reason why you effectively stealing.

You blame the government for pretty much letting every thing go to horse manure.Ask your self, who let that happen exactly ? The very people of this country keep electing the same losers every 4 years.Push that blame closer to home.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

No negotiations, no compromises and no consideration for effective management?
Is shifting Soweto’s debt to the City of Johannesburg really the best option?

Of course it's the best option. It means that we get to pay off their debt, the ANC get to keep their voters, and we get to moan about it online. Pretty much par for the course...

 

[Vrotappel]

Moving these people back to CoJ is just political grandstanding. Never going to happen.

 

[Sneeky]

Moving these people back to CoJ is just political grandstanding. Never going to happen.

I think the main reason they are Eskom direct (non paying) customers is no coincidence, it was so that they were never disconnected like the rest of the people who don't pay City Power.