Tshwane continues its revenue collection
Tshwane cracks the whip on illegal connections at posh estates.
The Tshwane municipality said this week that it would target more residential estates in Centurion and across the city for tampering with their electricity meter boxes and failing to pay bills.
“It must be emphasised that tampering fees will be levied on all meters found tampered or illegally connected,” said metro spokesperson Selby Bokaba.
“The City would like to once more encourage consumers who are illegally connected to the electricity and water networks to apply for amnesty to avoid fines and criminal charges.”
This was after the metro targeted the Copperleaf golf estate in Centurion last week after it was claimed that it bypassed its meter box.
The golf estate has, however, denied this claim.
According to the metro, each delinquent household at the estate was slapped with a hefty R200 000 fine and businesses were fined R10-million.
At the time, Mashigo said that the households in question dealt directly with the municipality and not through the golf estate.
The golf estate’s management wrote on its Facebook page that it had serious concerns regarding “the false reporting on social media platforms that over 600 homes were disconnected due to electricity non-payment and illegal connections”.
In the statement, the estate said no house was found to be illegally connected.
“After the full-day operation, the Tshwane functional head official (who was the project leader of the operations) confirmed that only 98 stands were disconnected due to households owing the municipality.
“There are no illegal connections that were confirmed on-site during operations.
“Whilst there were house stands, which had City of Tshwane red demand letters, these were houses that have not been paying their municipal rates,” the statement read.
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