More than 300 households listed under JOSHCO had illegal power connections cut - City Power
This is part of an operation to ensure the power utility is able to monitor revenue collection from its paying customers.
City Power during an operation to cut illegal electricity connections at the Kliptown Square complex on 29 January 2025. Picture: Sphamandla Dlamini/EWN
JOHANNESBURG - City Power said that more than 300 households listed under the Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO) have had illegal electricity connections stopped.
This is part of an operation to ensure the power utility is able to monitor revenue collection from its paying customers.
Speaking on Wednesday at Kliptown Square where an operation was underway, City Power spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, said that units in Devland, City Deep and Kliptown were disconnected.
He added that the disconnection operations had been ongoing for weeks now.
"Most of them are still off as we speak. There are those who have bypassed, it's a few of them. We will keep on revisiting those areas so we can make sure that they are still disconnected and come to us to pay penalties, and that they start buying electricity."