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Anton M

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2025

14 Feb 2025, 22:26

Disconnected for 4years + with no interests from COJ

Be aware very aware I am a house owner for 25 years and since 2019 we struggle with wrong billing from COJ in 2019 I was forced to involved attorneys for assistance who managed to sort my bill out just to my surprise to find out since I stayed in my houe it was registered 4 times to City park and it also explained why at times we get people who ask if they can view our property as they going to become the new owners and it cost us again to get the attorneys to sort it out at the deeds office.In 2019 we was told by COJ that they were send to disconnect our power due to payment we then went back to our attorney and he send request through to COJ to reconnect our power again but it only last for about a week and they was back to cut again. Me and my wife went in to Randburg branch where they asked us to go pay 10K then they will reconnect we made a deposit of 10K and still no reconnection took place we then went back to Randburg and ask if we can rather get a pre paid installed we was then asked to go and deposit another 30K to get our accounts cleared we borrowed money and paid the 30k. After 30k were paid no luck for reconnection In 2020 covid 19 arrived and we was stuck with no power through the period .After covid when restrictions were lifted COJ came to Check the meter and after phone calls between the technician and his boss they decided to change my electric meter with a other meter We then went back to change the payment date on our account to the last day of the month instead of the 15th of each month to avoid the interest on the account for late payments Then we were told that our power shouldn,t be reconnected and they know nothing about the new meter that was installed we need to go back home and bring along a foto and meter no.when we took it back to COJ in the morning they told us according to the meter no we shouldn't be reconnected .COJ then send the lawyers a AOD document to hand to us to sign on the AOD document they ask us to acknowledge the monthly payment of R00.01 . We query it with COJ and they told us not to tell them how to do their job .And ever since we sit with no power. Ever since 2019 we struggle to keep head above water and decided to rather sell the property as we receive statements ranging between R300 000 and R400 000 estimates. Our property was sold but can not get registered due to this billing problems from COJ our lawyers working with the transfer of the property and is struggling now for more than 6 months to get it sorted out.We are getting harast on a weekly basis City power will come to my property and ask to Check the meter and then connect the power and as clock work 2 days later 3 to 4 City power contractors will arive at my door ask to inspect my meter then they will ask who reconnect the power I will supply them with the details of the person from city power who done the connection then they will tell me that it is a ******* connection but if I pay them R1200 they will keep it on I then refuse to pay them any bribe they will then cut all the cables they can find in the meter box and I will receive notices of ******* connection This is happening now at least 2x per week . Now they start with my water meter 2 days ago they came to cut my water but instead of closing my water supply valve they forced stripped it as predicted today exactly 2 days later they arrived and drop a letter in my post box accusing us of *******ly reconnecting our water but my water meter valve was damaged by them 2 days ago ? What can I do in this situation as I do not have thousands of rands to pay upfront ???????Any assistance 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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