Ronnie Govender, a 71-year-old pensioner from Durban, voices his deep concerns about the looming threat of exorbitant ...

Durban - eThekwini Municipality is toying with the idea of installing prepaid meters in schools that are struggling to pay the municipality a total of R200million in debt for rates and services.

The eThekwini Municipality’s initiative to roll out pre-paid meters to schools was currently focusing on schools in debt, but it was also available to all public schools irrespective of debt status.

THIS week, the City of eThekwini has announced that it is currently rolling out pre-paid electricity meters to schools. “This is in an effort to assist the Department of Education to convert all ...

Local news eThekwini completes electricity meter rollover Eskom has urged all customers still using KRN1 meters to complete the rollover as the meters will no longer accept tokens after November 24.

A new meter costs roughly R600 and installation should not exceed R1 000, according to installers in other municipalities. Converting to prepaid in eThekwini costs R2 010, which is affordable, and ...

About 4.45 million of the roughly 11.53 million prepaid meters in South Africa ... The City of Johannesburg has updated over half of its 292,121 meters, while Durban’s City of Ethekwini has yet ...

If customers don’t update their meter in time they could have to purchase a new meter at a cost of up to R12 000. Updating is as easy as purchasing a new top up token and keying in the two 20 ...

The prepaid electricity meter crisis in South Africa has spotlighted a ... In eThekwini, for instance, 173,850 meters are classified as non-vending despite there being only 260,000 paying ...

A News24 article says new data suggests roughly 40% of the prepaid electricity meters controlled by Eskom, the City of Johannesburg and eThekwini are 'non-vending'.

Sithembiso Ngema, DA eThekwini councillor, said he had written to the acting head of Electricity to prioritise the procurement of electricity prepaid meters because councillors are receiving ...

WHY is converting to prepaid meters in uMngeni so expensive? Many residents in uMngeni want to convert from conventional credit meters to prepaid meters but find the cost prohibitive. Quotes to ...