Eskom's transition to a new pre-paid meter system has exposed significant leadership failures, resulting in chaos and tragedy ...

The new Mayor of Tshwane ... let’s work on getting out of the court process, but let’s convince each other. So on, sorry, the days are a bit messed up, but we had a meeting with Gauteng ESKOM a few ...

Thanks to a new ... meters still using the outdated KRN1 system will no longer accept electricity tokens after November 24, rendering them inoperable once existing credit runs out. Monde Bala ...

Following a week of South African prepaid meter users panicking to get ... with no choice but to wait it out. This is mainly because Eskom and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa insisted ...

Eskom's Daphne Mokwena is urging customers who have been buying electricity from ghost vendors to go to a legal vendor to buy electricity and upgrade the meter if it's still working.

Eskom has said that its prepaid ... due to a time-based security mechanism in most meters called the token identifier (TID), which ran out of range yesterday, at 20:15 on 24 November 2024.

says Eskom Distribution group executive Monde Bala. Buying electricity tokens will provide customers with two sets of 20-digit codes needed to recode and update their meters, he points out.

These customers need to buy electricity tokens from legal vendors by the end of Sunday, to ensure they can finish the upgrading process on Monday.

Eskom reports over 5.2 million successful upgrades as of Saturday night. However, thousands of residents continue to wait in long queues, hoping to meet the deadline and avoid penalty fees.

On Sunday, every prepaid electricity meter across the country ... to fast-track the process, saying Eskom employees would work into the weekend to sort it out. "Extended hours, increased capacity ...

complaining that Eskom provided insufficient support and guidance in the lead-up to it. Sunday's cut-off means that once the current credit on a user's prepaid meter runs out, the meter will ...