I’m a born a bred South African . Love the people and pretty much everything about it EXCEPT crime been hijacked etc but this I can live with however dealing with the city of Johannesburg has just swayed me to leave this place . They put in a new electricity meter in November 2024 and were estimating my electricity which was higher than the actual reading and I payed every month for the estimates . When it came to July 2025 they didn’t allocate the estimates paid for the past 10 months and claimed they only estimated for 2 months even though statement showed they were estimating all the time. I pay every month on time when July bill came they added the 19000kwh from the actual readings and said I owed them 28000 and didn’t offset the estimates paid . I refused to pay them that R28000 as it is not correct but continued to pay latest invoices on time . went to Sandton and Alexandra branch and send numerous emails they said they would sort it out which they didn’t no response . Today they came to my house and disconnected water without any technician name filled in and just left a note they didn’t ring the bell or anything. Well that’s my rant as being an honest citizen and paying every month you get treated like kak. Maybe honesty isn’t the best policy in this place .   submitted by   /u/Steco777 [link]   [comments]