On Wednesday morning, Electricity and Energy Minister Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa confirmed that no extension will be granted for prepaid electricity consumers to re-code their meters if they fail to do so by the deadline.
Prepaid electricity customers have until November 24, 2024 to update their meters. Picture: file imageWith over 2 million households still having to fulfil Eskom 's Sunday deadline, scores of Soweto prepaid electricity users are irate after waiting for hours to upgrade their meters.Many individuals waiting in long lines outside the Eskom branch in Zola, Soweto , were visibly frustrated by the current deadline.
They waited in line for hours, which was deemed intolerable, in an attempt to prevent power outages when the new system was put into place. Eskom introduced a system to suppress the illegal buying of prepaid electricity tokens from unauthorised vendors. “It is not extendable, we can’t extend it, it’s a technical issue. So it’s a hard stop. If you have not re-coded, then you are sitting with a different problem,” he maintained.
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