has refused to restore power to areas that have repeated failures due to illegal connections and high levels of non-payment, especially in Soweto.
The power utility says it will only restore supply to legal and paying customers in the areas on condition that the community allows safe access to Eskom staff to conduct audits and remove illegal connections.
Mokoena said the electricity issues were not coming from Soweto only, but in areas such as Katlehong, Diespsloot and informal settlements.
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Good. User pay system.
Illegal actions
Well it's about time
marinavanzyl That's good no one is immune in paying electricity.
Kanti why don't they change them into prepaid once
But wait, if you have 30% of the citizens living in extreme poverty and you have millions of unemployed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants how do you think these people will afford electricity?
Sadly a very large portion of the bailout to Eskom will fund salaries of unthinking employees 🤦 No imagination and brain cells to come up with solutions for even the simplest of problems 🤷
Yaaassss!
Eskom_SA Uiteindelik!
Well done Eskom... enough is truly enough, and no more free rides and illegal connections to broader municipalities incapable of governing, enforcing finances and delivering services.
What about Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Like Soweto?
OfficialYayah My nigga you good? Is this true?
By bloody time
I support Eskom 100% every user must pay!
Nithi senzeni eSoweto? We are waiting for I first.... saVOTA as we were promised free electricity
It us simply Eskom fighting for survival of the country as a whole. What's right is right. Just a pity so many innocents get hurt...
It's only fair.
Flabber is gasted “over” English used here. Let’s leave pidgin English to politicians please eNCA.
Let them try that shit at Soweto, we shut down SA klaar
Eskom_SA balome Eskom balome ko Soweto
Lol elections are over now...
Switch off the lights were tired of paying for ppl, tarrifs increase every year ppl JST get manna from heaven.
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Way to go. We getting somewhere. Switch off Soweto
It’s HIGH TIME that parliament amend TREASON LAW to include CORRUPTION. Otherwise the bailout to SOEs will remain a cash cow corruption pot for politicians knowing that nothing will be done to them.
Lol good luck
As they should!
JackD157 Agree
except for soweto
I hope they include Soweto
Good on you Eskom. Time that the people, municipalities started taking responsibility and paying for services instead of just expecting it as their given right. Nothing is for mahala if you want to improve people's standards if living.
Should have done it a long time ago. Why must those willing to pay suffer.
MYANC you gonner regret this! In Gauteng we are not ignorant, 2months now without power , come 2021 novotelwa abahlala ezilalini.
That the way it goes vele.
This move, I support.... people cannot enjoy the use of electricity and not pay for it!!
So it should. Why must I and others pay for people who do not pay. Anybody who does not pay should be cut off
Please change your news scrolling at the bottom of the screen. It's last night's
I agree with Eskom
I agree with Eskom,as the service provider they need payment,those who feel aggrieved can approach the court,otherwise Eskom is within their right to refuse
Paldron 👏👏👏 thank god
Good. Make them pay up
Good job Eskom
As painful as it is for those areas, but something must be done! Eskom is a business that must make money!
Soweto
It’s about time, well done Eskom_SA !!! If you had this attitude from the beginning, you wouldn’t be in so much s*t !
Ayeye Soweto
Surely it would be all over the news if the whole of SOWETO was in darkness....
Which areas have they cut the electricity?
Hope same applies to Zimbabwe..
Thanks
About time!
Haha guptas hv come home to roost...where r all the loyalists now ...cant pay with ur ANC t-shirt now can u?
I support you Eskom, one cannot use electricity freely like its oxygen...visit the SOWETO residents asap
Time for freebies to end and reality to hit home - perhaps this will bring the electorate into the realm of what's really happening in SA. Empty promises with unapologetic sorriest must fast become a thing of the past
Soweto has not power?
It is high bloody time......
i paid my bill for years still no power
The user must pay... Tito
Keep up the good job eskom,no money no electricity
Ari thomeng ka Soweto
Soweto ?
What about Soweto?
willfreeiam Ku bird mos 🤭
Good, it's about time. We have to pay a fortune every month and these municipalities just squander the money..🤨
Eskom must accept their part in this. Their prepaid meter project rollout in those areas was put on hold in 2016 because of the local elections, as residents threatened not to vote. In areas where there's prepaid meters, eskom employees are the one's who bridge them. It's a mess.
Good move. Its about time
I wish this kind of so called leadership prevail at increasing employment so our people can afford eskom ever increasing tariffs.
Good move. We can’t afford the free loaders.
Can they just deal with Soweto and we know they will huff and puff and burn BUT it's time they paid for services like the rest of us.
Good
About time
Well done Eskom, keep it up or switched off 😂😂😂
About time! 🙌🏻
Well done Eskom !!!! No money ... no power !!!
A step in the right direction by Eskom_SA
Batho ba Soweto and other townships le mo 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 Ayeye......
Leadership
Keep it up eskom, de yrs of lawlessness under Zuma are over, is time to pay up
Good move people should start paying for services if you can't, make arrangements
schools, clinics will be burnt, roads damaged, cars stoned and burnt..eish!!!
This is what I call good governance
Eskom_SA now what happens to households paying for electricity because not everyone is a bad debt🤔
Good!! We cant be paying for electricity while other people are using it for free🙌🏽NgekeSbali🚮
But Eskom Techinicians are corrupt on their own taking bribes for illegal connections Eskom_SA
How?
Kay_Gee22 Soweto they think they are special
😂😂😂😂 there goes their votes they never learn
Good they must keep it that way. Why must the people that pay suffer
Eish in this cold 🥶 tjerrrrrrr
Totally agree with the Eskom.
Good Eskom_SA..... no pay no service
After 25 years of non payments
Stand firm Eskom_SA we must all pay out dues.
Problem is that others pay it's not all the residents
Zinxilile ezizirhama when they just received 52 billion
Let’s hope this is sustained and not a stunt!
Great! Keep it up. If all pay we can have cheaper electricity, Hey Eishkom!
Start with Alex gomora
This is what ZetdcOfficial should be doing
But Soweto.
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