Amid load shedding pain, more than 50% of Soweto residents are illegally connected to grid - Eskom | News24

City Power conducts an operation to cut off illegal connections in Alexandra. The operation focused on Riverpark and the informal settlements along London Road and was supported by different units of the SAPS and JMPD.Eskom says more than 50% of electricity customers in Soweto are"zero buyers" and only 40% of residents buy and pay for electricity.

The embattled power utility said 85 563 of its 173 800 customers were illegally connected to the grid and did not pay for electricity. This despite many residents claiming they were willing to pay for electricity. This was due to the network becoming overloaded due to illegal connections; meter bypasses and tampering; unauthorised operations on the electricity network; vandalism and theft of electrical equipment; purchasing electricity tokens from ghost vendors; and non-payment of electricity, Qithi said.

She said people tampering with electricity meters were identified through an auditing process. They are then charged a reconnection fee of R6 052.60. According to Qithi, Eskom has talked to customers about the process and the deferred payment arrangement where customers are encouraged to enter into a six-month payment plan to settle the reconnection fee.

You are so thoroughly sold out to government you may just as well move into Luthuli House. Ask the mayor of Soweto how much of the money paid for electricity is actually paid over to Eskom?

So locate the people doing these illegal connections and arrest them

We are sharing the country with illegal immigrants so yes there will be illegal connections because people from out side will never take care of what’s not there’s and they will never pay for power as we do

More won’t than can 🤔

It's none of your business white racists,you always protect DA white supremacy.

Exactly!!! stop illegal power!!! Stop criminals!

There are people collecting revenue from illegal connections. Every informal settlement has this. No one is dealing with this.

Soweto ppl must just buy solars. I dnt think they gonna get electricity anytime soon.

Cut the 50% off.! Go in there with the SANDF_ZA and clear out the illegal connections! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Why can’t the illegal connections be removed ?

They did so in an era where load shedding affects all.. Including paying customers.. There fixed it for you..

We're facing lvl6 loadshedding while 50% of Sowetto is illegally connected and most of the rest don't pay for electricity. That can only makes sense in SA although I don't understand it at all.

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