While Eskom is drowning in debt and struggling to make ends meet, Soweto residents say they want their debt written off and to only pay R100 per month for unlimited electricity.
Eskom currently supplies 135,000 Soweto residents with power, but only 12% of these customers pay for electricity.
This non-payment has seen Soweto’s debt to Eskom increase from R3.6 billion in 2014 to its current level of R18 billion.
To alleviate this debt burden, Eskom is threatening to disconnect non-paying customers, remove illegal connections, and move more houses to prepaid electricity.
Soweto residents fighting back
Soweto residents, however, are having none of Eskom’s debt-collection and disconnection plans and are demanding that the power utility writes off their debt.
These residents argue that they cannot afford to pay for electricity, let alone pay off the money they owe to Eskom.
Instead, the residents proposed that they be ch
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