TOBY SHAPSHAK: Joburg City Power-less to stop its own rogue contractors
I had to get an armed guard to prevent the City of Joburg from erroneously disconnecting my electricity – despite their contractors having come to the wrong address entirely
03 August 2020 - 15:30
The name and house number were wrong, the address was for an entirely different street and the electricity meter number was incorrect, yet City Power contractors tried to disconnect our electricity last Wednesday morning.
The only way I could prevent them – because they refused to listen to common sense – was to get my private security firm, Beagle Watch, to send an armed guard to stand in their way. Without this they would have disconnected the electricity to the wrong house, in the wrong street, in the middle of winter – a mistake entirely of their own making. Welcome to Gangsta’s Paradise...
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