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Johannesburg residents might soon be forced to install prepaid water and electricity meters!

This comes as the city's billing system, named Project Phakama, which was supposed to assist residents to sort out problems water and lights accounts.

Joburg Water said it planned to roll out pre-paid water meters to every household across the city.
But details as to when, how and the costs involved were still not clear.

City Power has already installed about 16500 pre-paid electricty meters in households in Roodepoort, Tshepisong and Matholeville.

The city's revenue collection has in recent months come under severe pressure as a result of the city's inability to properly bill its customers. The implementation of the R580-million Project Phakama, an IT system aimed at creating a single-stop invoicing centre where accounts would be centralised into one billing database, just can't seem to cope at all!

Council spokesman Nthatisi Modingoane said the prepaid meters are one of several options being considered to distribute electricity, which can pnly benfit consumers

"The city will study the results of the pilot project before making a decision on the future roll-out of pre-paid meters and in which regions of Johannesburg it might be feasible".

It was said" pre-paid meter system would help customers manage their own usage, as well as help the city to increase revenue collection.


DA caucus in the Joburg council councillor Vasco Da Gama said: "We have no problem with pre-paid meters, but it must be negotiated with communities."

It's high time for the council to get their house in order_consumers are demanding a better service<which resulted in chaos at their offices on wednesday.