******* DA municipality robbing residents every way possible.

I received invoices amounting to more than R30 000 from the City Electricity generation. letters mentions tempared or defective electricity meters. In june they told me they have to change the meters because they are old. A month later i started getting invoices demanding that i pay for defective meters. Everytime i call i get a different response/ reason to the demand. reasons are something like this 1. Meters were changed in all old houses. (i know its a lie because they didnt change for my white neighbors houses. ) 2. Because meters are old, they read less units and i end up using more electricity than what i'm paying for. so the city did a calculation and now they expect me to pay all that electricity that the meter was not reading properly for the past 10 years. but i have been staying here for 6 years only. also why is it my problem to pay for something that i didnt cause? it is not my responsibnility to service electricity meters. 3. They claim to have found red tape inside the meter, and they think it is not from the municipality, that means i once opened the box. But funny they didnt show this to us when they came to replace the meter, also they found the meter box still locked as per normal. also what proof do they have that it is temparing. and what benefits did i gain from the temparing ?

currently they managed to load this amount in my electricity account, therefore each time we buy electricity they deduct 50% of the funds and i get electricity for 50% of the funds. We are already struggling to make ends meet needs, now being punished for something we have no idea about. Something we didnt cause and without agreement it is really unfair. this city is not just ****** but they attack black residents making life so difficult that we end up not affording to live here. that is the only conclusion i can come up with. I have been calling, email asking for a meeting with the electricity officials but they refuse. I opened an investigation with ombudsman department but no difference. They also keep on promising to get back to me, but they never do. This is just a scheme but DA to make money and chase the blacks out of Cape Town.