BILLING CRISIS: Joburg pensioner gets R437,000 in credits, write-offs after seven-year billing battle

Daily Maverick · 2026-10-13T19:29:57.000Z · World

After years of fighting a municipal account he insisted was wrong, Johannesburg pensioner Umesh Daya has seen more than R437,000 in credits and write-offs applied to his account. City Power’s own analysis suggests he should not have been billed for postpaid electricity while buying prepaid power.

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