Business buildings face R10m fines as Tshwane probes illegal connection

10 February 2023 - 14:46

The Tshwane metro has been plagued by illegal electricity connections that it now wants to tackle with an aggressive revenue collection campaign.The City of Tshwane is investigating how a business building in the west of Pretoria illegally connected directly to the municipality’s power substation and got to supply electricity to two other buildings.

The illegally connected buildings were disconnected from the grid on Thursday during the municipality’s aggressive revenue collection campaign.“We are investigating how the businesses were able to connect illegally. This will help in understanding what we need to do to prevent it happening again,” Stuurman said.“We suspect there might be some people on the inside that assisted them to illegally connect.

Stuurman said the west of Pretoria was plagued with illegal connections, adding: “Last year we removed 700 illegal connections at Gomora informal settlement.“Illegal connections remain a problem in the City of Tshwane and we want to continue undertaking these types of operations so that we can address this extensively.

Stuurman said the municipality planned to improve its monitoring services to catch defaulters early and improve the metro’s financial position.

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