Users illegally bypassing pre-paid meters will be fined: Ramakgopa

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa addresses the media on November 20, 2024.

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Electricity and Energy Minister Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says that those who have been consuming electricity illegally by bypassing their pre-paid meters have until next month to comply.

This follows Eskom’s completion of a meter recoding process at the weekend to ensure that pre-paid electricity meters remain operable.

Ramokgopa told the media in Pretoria that defaulting consumers would be fined.

He says, “They would not have been affected by this conversion, cause, after all, they are bypassing if you like the legal platform and these are the people to whom we have communicated that it is our intention that they from now until the 13th of December present themselves so that we can regularise them and then there’s things around the tampering fine. Essentially an admission of guilt that look I’ve not been consuming legally, and we do accept that it’s an onerous obligation of about R6000. And that gets to be split over a period of 12- months and the customer pays R500 per month to cushion the blow over a period of 12 months.