It is absolutely disgusting that the waiting period for a pre paid meter has moved form 6 months to 12 months, which means that if you apply for a pre paid meter today, you will pay the municipality in around 6 weeks, then only have the pre paid meter installed next year this time in May. Yet there are hundreds of contractors looking for work and millions of people without jobs, but I suppose what more could a person expect.

It is not like you are they subsidise us like in the good old days, you pay the full rate and some, and you pay upfront, plus they earn million of rands in interest from all the payments, maybe it is just another money making racket they have latched onto. There are thousands of people waiting for meters to be installed.