As of the 1 September 2021 ... the president of SA has notified all municipalities that they can start disconnecting you services with immediate effect.
I was told by the private contractor that the list is so long he will be making an absolute fortune with the amount of disconnects ... thanks to the council not reading my meter for so long the actual reading is in the tens of thousands.
Looks like we will not be given the benefit of writing off our bills like Eskom did for people of Soweto.
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It will be cheaper for me to install a full PV system than pay my electricity account.
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By the way ... I am still waiting for Standard bank business banker to return my call ... so I decided F%ck it ... I had a delivery to do ... so I stopped off at FNB ... a half an hour later I have a cheque account ... a savings account ... a card issued and initialised at the ATM ... the FNB banking app and already transferred money into the account.
I will give it 3 months and see how it goes ... then I will move everything from Standard to FNB.
By the way ... I walked up the steps by the time I got to the door I had a young lad ask what I required ... half and hour later I walked out with a new bank account and his details to contact him direct if I have any questions or need anything.
What an awesome banking experience ... I would probably still be in the que at Standard bank waiting for a business banker... sometime you just got the grab the bull by the horns and move.
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@ian I almost said, "I told you so." As Adrian says, life is worth living. Sometimes we just have to follow another route to get to where we want to be. How can we expect change and something better if we just do what we have always been doing?
FNB has a business help desk which operates 24/7 0877 FNB 247. I have found them to be very helpful and saves you going to a branch and sitting in a queue. (at FNB you don't stand).
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The municipality will turn your water off to a trickle....They've done it to me a couple of times. You then get nailed with a fat fee when they turn it back on. My electricity is on a meter so if I don't pay for electricity I live in the dark!
In my neck of the woods, RWB have already reduced the water pressure by 20% .... to the municipality. The wonderful municipality owes RWB more than R3 billion.Originally Posted by adrianh
I applied for a pre paid meter years ago ... I am still waiting ... I think they dont like installing pre paid in side of the world ... because then they cant cut your electricity.
It seems many people are going to get home to a nasty surprise ... the contractor said he has hundreds of disconnection to do over the next fews days.
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It is not legal to cut off your electricity if you have already paid for it ( prepaid ) so the Munic, instead of cutting your electricity, they just block the meter so that you cannot buy more when the existing units run out and the meter shuts off. It's actually simpler and cheaper than having a contractor physically go and cut and reconnect.
Peace out .. Derek.
Why trust the municipality to read your water or electricity meter with a good chance of getting the numbers wrong or inflating the consumption. The government and municipalities are bankrupt and now they are looking for other sources of revenue.
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ians (23-Sep-21)
In my suburb, the DBs no longer lock. My neighbour noticed that combined with a stupidly high bill, his meter carried on turning even though he switched his supply off.
They pitched up to disconnect his electricity and he showed them the problem. They left and instead pitched up the next day with a member of the Red Ants. When my wife took a photo of their unmarked vehicle and my neighbour and his brother in law (two traditionally large dudes) proceeded to explain what would happen to them if the continued along that paththey thought better of it.
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