The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber told the hearing in Gqeberha on 20 November that the quality of the metro’s power ...

Eskom spokesperson Daphne Mokwena said a technical breakthrough by Eskom will allow zero buyers to convert their meters to KRN2 beyond tomorrow’s deadline. “However,” she said ...

Picture: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp JOHANNESBURG - Eskom says it will provide replacement prepaid meters to Soweto residents who were buying electricity tokens from unregistered vendors.

A Johannesburg City Power smart meter. Picture: File JOHANNESBURG - Eskom has extended its prepaid meter upgrade deadline from Sunday to Monday, specifically for “zero buyers”. These are ...

Despite having a decade to perform the update, Eskom only started preparing meters for KRN rollover — what it has dubbed as “precoding” — about a year and three months before the deadline.

State-owned power utility Eskom is once again urging all prepaid electricity customers to update their meters immediately to avoid an unexpected loss of electricity after the deadline of November 24.

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.

The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) is calling on power utility Eskom to extend the deadline for electricity prepaid meter upgrades and opposes the R12,000 fee for replacing meters.

Once the meter has been activated through the buying of electricity, the customer can then visit any of the Eskom sites to complete the conversion process. By Sunday morning, more than a million ...