City Power reiterates that it will refuse to respond to outage calls from non-paying customers, saying its finances are being negatively impacted by higher stages of rolling blackouts, coupled with being owed around R10-billion in unpaid electricity bills.
. The utility says its finances are being negatively impacted by higher stages of rolling blackouts, coupled with being owed around R10-billion in unpaid electricity bills.It says it has written to residents of Naturena in the south of Johannesburg, giving them until Friday to respond.Spokesperson Isaac Mangena says: “We are doing this because of the revenue collection in the city.
Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane has once again stated that higher levels of rolling blackouts are having a catastrophic effect on the metro’s power infrastructure. Tshwane’s MMC for Utilities and Regional Operations, Themba Fosi, says: “The damage is catastrophic, I must say. We are open to vandalism, theft and the network is aging – therefore the infrastructure is not built to be put on and off. It has very catastrophic consequences.”
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