City of Joburg

THE City of Johannesburg must pay a R500 000 fine for contempt of court after bungling the implementation of an order to fix an electricity billing complaint for more than three years. The city has been found to have not complied with an order, granted in March last year, to provide a block of flats in Berea with an electricity bill. This is despite having been first forced by the same high court to fix the billing challenges in 2018. The city claimed that Preston Place’s meter number belonged to a different complex in Oaklands. The city is going to appeal against the judgment. |