Recycled cell phone numbers given to new contracts

Good day, I took out a new contract in December14 for my mum based in durban. We never never notified as such, but she was assigned a recycled cell phonenumber.<br> <br> She is now getting sms's and called at all hours of the day and even late at night for outstanding debt owed by the previous owner of the number she was assigned. <br> This is causing her undue stress and harassment. My application was for a new contract, on the assumption that a new number will be assigned to me. Agent who assisted me: Andrew at the MTN store in chatsworth centre did not inform us at the time of taking out the contract that we would be issued recycled cell phone numbers.<br> <br> She has recently been given another number, however once again it is a pre-existing number and she is still getting sms's and calls at all hours from debt collectors and companies who are owed money from the previous holder of this number<br> <br> This is taking up an unneceaary amount of time to call and make inquiries for something that should be my problem to deal with.<br> <br> Should MTN fail to address my issue, I will take this on to consumer watch as this is a breach of contract due to non-disclosure.