Residents around the City of Mbombela in Mpumalanga are urging Eskom to assist them in upgrading their electricity meters. Long queues have formed outside Eskom offices as customers seek help to recode their meter boxes, following an announcement by Eskom to extend the deadline for prepaid meter upgrades for zero-buyer customers. The initial deadline was Sunday, and customers are required to upgrade their meters to comply with Eskom’s Key Revision Number 2 (KRN2).
Residents around the City of Mbombela , Mpumalanga, are pleading with the power utility, Eskom , to assist them in upgrading their electricity meters.
Initially, the deadline for meter recording was Sunday. Customers are required to upgrade their meters to be compliant with Eskom’s Key Revision Number 2 . Another customer says, “We don’t have a problem with these meter changes, but then the main problem here is that most people are unemployed, and they won’t afford to pay those R6 000 that they have to pay here at Eskom.”
City spokesperson, Thipa Selala says only 2% of municipal electricity clients are yet to be registered.
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