Dear Customer Services,

REF NUMBER: 164 573 148

I refer to the below urgent enquiry that don’t seem to be going anywhere. We have further received a quotation of about R200 000+

We don’t have such an amount and even if we did we wouldn’t pay. Why would we have to pay for something that we didn’t consent to? Eskom came and put a pole in our home, there were already houses there and there was a yard, they never Consulted with the Land/Home owner when they installed this and now we are asked to pay this ridiculous amount of money., the quotation is not even signed have been trying to contact the issuer but to no avail. I have been calling your call centre and often given the same story, I have sent a number of emails to your Customer Services and even provided my contact details but to no avail there as well. I only received an autoreply email acknowledging the email and committing to reply within a certain time but that never happened. I contacted the call centre as well today on 30 May 2017 they are saying that us receiving a quote mean that the matter is finalised and that investigations were done and concluded. He suggests that we might have built where there were demarcations which I totally disagree, that Village was there many years ago and Eskom was not even a thought, if that was the case we should have been informed of this before they install a pole as the houses were already build and the yard installed already. This pole doesn’t support only use therefore we cannot suffer because of this, we don’t care of the whole village stays without electricity we want our Land and we want to use it and surely we have a right to do what we want on our Land. We also heared from the neighbours that instead of the pole being removed you have changed the pole and re installed a new one, again you went and did as you please in someone's property. Are you going to give issue us with a quote for that as well??????????? The property in question is in Eastern Cape but we stay in Western Cape.

My father spoke to someone by the surname of Marhuluba, Mr Marhuluba, he provided the following contacts for him , 047 401 7423 & 047 401 7100 but we are unable to reach him on those contacts. He also provided Portia Vamba’s contact details, he said we must contact him or Portia but we don’t get hold of Portia as well on the contacts provided , 043 703 2361

I am issued with the below ref for the Quote complaint.

Quotation Complaint ref - 205 450 191

Thanking you in anticipation.
[email protected]

Good Day,

We have not had electricity for more than three weeks now. I have called and emailed so many time. They keep giving us reference number of which they have turned to be very useless because they never come to fix our transformer.

Every time we call Eskom we are told that a car has been sent to fix our transformer which is a big lie. We have thrown out food due to not having electricity which has cost us more than a lot of money. In total 34 houses DO NOT have electricity, it is cold now and it is close to exam time for school kids.
Reference number: 204653306 and Reference Number: 204886464.

Pole Number kct 34
Diepsloot ext 6
next to house no 3024
meter number 07062103192

Regards,
Bongi

We have not had electricity for more than three weeks now. I have called and emailed so many time. They keep giving us reference number of which they have turned to be very useless because they never come to fix our transformer.

Every time we call Eskom we are told that a car has been sent to fix our transformer which is a big lie. We have thrown out food due to not having electricity which has cost us more than a lot of money. In total 34 houses DO NOT have electricity, it is cold now and it is close to exam time for school kids.
Reference number: 204653306 and Reference Number: 204886464.

Pole Number kct 34
Diepsloot ext 6
next to house no 3024
meter number 07062103192

Good day,

I would like to lodge a complaint against eskom. After my parents have been phoning the Eskimos helpline to request a electricity bill as they have not received a bill in the last few months, their (2 pensioners) electricity has been cut. This evening.my level of disgust for this power utility us at extreme low as the subcontractors who were tasked to this malicious act, was rude with them. Let it be known that they also were not competent in providing advise as to how the reconnection would work.
Please investigate this matter and these rude subcontractors.

Regards,
Ursula Riddles
074 754 6018

Good morning

The service at Eskom is really not satisfactory. Need to train their staff at night about their system, so that when people call their able to assist them. Our parents are BORN BEFORE TECHNOLOGY so its difficult for them when the CUI boxes gives them problems.
1. On the 15-05-2017 was called by my parents that their box is giving them problems. Went and realized I also couldn't be of assistance. Called Eskom @ 17:50 and was helped by the gentleman by the name of Sizwe who was not of assistance at all.
Logged a complain with him of Ref: 204392769. Still waiting for the reply that would be done within 5 working days I assume.
2. Was told that the system was not updated and need to wait for an hour for it to be updated as if its my problem for their system not updated. I'm having a problem and also accommodate them with their system being updated.
I waited on the dark and cold with my kids and parents.
3. After an hour at 18:55 called again and shame what a waste of my airtime. Helped by the worse Mashego who was not of assistance and short tempered, chicky and never got any assistance.
4. @ 19:05 called again thinking maybe would get better help unfortunately was caller number 58 and couldn't wait since I had spent R150.00 of airtime for fruitless expenditure.
5. The following day after a cold night and ooooh a cold bath in the morning called Eskom again, needed to do that cause cant stay in the cold. NO CHOICE HAD TO DO IT
6. Was helped by the lady who was helpful and also took the matter in a professional way. I thought I called the wrong number since the two idiots at night when asked to that they said they can't.
7. Listern (something) @09:09 was a bit of help hope the issue become resolved.

Ref: 204392769
Meter No: 07101668593

A very angry customer that need help and solution on the boxes in the manner of old people who cant understand technology.

Regards,
Dineo

Good day

We have been without power since Saturday morning between three thirty and four!! We have phoned Eskom several times (+10) with absolutely no help whatsoever. We have been given reference numbers only to have the case closed by the field agents (that never come to resolve the issue) approximately 30minutes later. We suspect it might be cable theft which we have reported as well only to be told that we need a case number from the police. We have been to the police station and told that it is not our responsibility to report it and as the pole is outside our property, it is Eskom's responsibility to report it.
Contacted Eskom only to be told I need to follow up at 08:30 in order to speak to the supervisor. Well, Eskom with my electricity bill up to date and paid promptly on a monthly basis, how about you get off your ass and resolve and our electricity outage!!!

We are now desperate as we rely on our electricity for the most basic and valuable resource, water!!!

Good day

We had a power outage since 02:32 this morning.
I tried calling the call centre several times to get a reference and guess what, it rings, the call gets answered and then complete silence???
Getting paid for silence I guess, sorry I mean sleeping.
Hooray for the call centre that needs to assist people
I have tried calling from 02:50 till after 03:23 , a total of 8 times with the same results, dead silence.
Could this please be looked into as a matter of urgency as I am sure I am not the only one with this problem and this is not the first time nor the second or third time this happened.

Calles made to Eskom at the below times on 11-04-2017.
0860 037 566
02.50
02.52
02.53
02.55
02.59
03.22
03.23

Thank you

How long should we wait for eskom to help us out or are you waiting for someone to get hurt then you will come .. since last sunday ive reported to eskom about the cable being in contact with water but people that are being sent here dont wanna dig to solve the problem .. they tell us they will do that some other time.. please hire people who wants to work .. my food are rotten .. i live in orange groove

Our power went off (as per usual) at about 3am in the morning. This time however, only our pole seemed affected. Neighbours next door are okay for power, neighbour over the road is also off - so its only our pole. Reported to Eskom at 7am. No ref number sms'd to me as requested. By 11am I started phoning back. Told they are waiting for materials, and power will be restored by 14h30. By 15h00, no power. Phoned yet again. Told the problem is resolved...... bullshit - we are still without power. Once again go to great lengths to explain its only our pole. New fault gets logged - so this means we have to wait ANOTHER 4 hours.... what utter nonsense. Phone again at 4pm... Now this getsescalated to Meyerton Technical office. By 5pm still no power. Meyerton does this often - closing a reference off and the problem is not resolved. Must be to buy more time cos they don't know what they are doing. Eskom's Meyerton service dept is shockingly bad.

Wow, it is 1 o'clock in the morning, our whole area is out due to a storm @ 10 last night.
I phoned to report outage and got told that someone will attend the call in the morning because their technicians "knock-off" at 10.
So here we all sit. This is great service for you. Since when!!!! God help anyone that has medical problems and requires electricity, because Eskom obviously don't care.

Good day

We report our lack of electricity almost everyday wr have explained to call centre staff logged a complained and the was no feedback . We staying next to a squatter camp which means illegal connections can we please have electricity inside pools of our yards or can we please move to other boxes that are not easily accessible we can't buy anything for the fridge because they all wasted

I'm staying with a 71year old woman and all this causes so much stress on her please help her.


Regards

I have called your customer service line to apply for new connection. As per reference 192553724, I didn't get any respond since i was told that they will send members for inspection. i don't know why it takes time i have a pole in my yard is just to connect to the house. i am very much disturbed about this situation.

I Have contacted Eskom customer service for new connection, Since i received Reference number 192553724 and be told that they will send the member to come and inspect the site. i am still waiting. i don't know why it takes so long. i have also explain the there is a pole in my yard it need connection to the house. i am very much disturbed about the service received.

Wow .... who much longer. this was my complain nr at 1o'Clock at 18;48 I got a sms telling me : Eskom Ref 182645279 Dear Customer, Power should be restored as per field staff. If your power is not on please report it again.

when I phoned in again TELLING THEM still no power, I was told to get a new complain nr... now I have to wait for 6 hours again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where is the SERVICE???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????? JUST LIES

no shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is now the 3rd time that my electricity has been disconnected while my account IS NOT IN ARREARS! In February 2016 I had to wait 6 days for the reconnection. In that 6 days they broke into our house twice! Today my electricity was disconnected although the account was paid on the 29th of July 2016 and the payment is reflecting on my statement. I now have to wait for Eskom to approve the reconnection WHILST it was not supposed to be disconnected in the first instance!! I have had enough of this incompetent useless people who are incapable of delivering a service I have to pay for!!!!! My Eskom acc no, if ANYONE is even remotely interested in trying to do something about this, is: 5322220912!

I’d like to escalate The Eskom Technicians for their appalling service
We have been without electricity for three days now, since Saturday 30/07/ 2016… We keep calling to log calls only to find that the calls are been closed saying that the “issue has been resolved” whereas it hasn’t been resolved, I find this VERY unprofessional.

Ref numbers - 179267987/ 179304954

To whom it may Concern

I’d like to escalate The Eskom Technicians for their appalling service
We have been without electricity for a week now, since Sunday 12th June 2016… We keep calling to log calls only to find that the calls are been closed saying that the “issue has been resolved” whereas it hasn’t been resolved, I find this VERY unprofessional and rather frustrating that in this blistering cold we are left without electricity for so long

Below are the list of Reference numbers in our name and I’m sure there are a whole lot more from all the neighbors

175139658
175222742
175278280
175499150

I fail to understand why we must stay without electricity for so long and have to beg people to come forth and assist us for a service we are paying for???

This is totally totally UNACCEPTABLE!

We URGENTLY need assistance, please could someone look into this

Hi I am staying at Diepsloot extension six.emlanjeni street we keep calling eskom.they just giving us references but no service.wen they come and fixing within and hours the electric it will b off again.pls help guys

This is really getting out of hand, we don't know what to do anymore as Tswelopele Residents, Every month we have to call Eskom to assist with the new box is there any way Eskom can upgrade their meter boxes?, And the other thing that I don't understand is that recently technicians have been going house to house checking the meter boxes but the don't come with Eskom cars their work suit don't have names some ask for tjotjo from the resident before they can assist in changing their meter box, I confused I don't know what is going on now, I understand that Eskom is still facing some challenging but then why is Eskom producing fraud because if Eskom send someone to come and inspect the meter box they should have a prove of a document proving that not that anyone can claim that they are from Eskom the want to check the meter box.

someone came to check our meter box last week Tuesday apparently he claim that we don't but electricity accordingly said he will come back with the feedback as he is going to do the investigations, he took all the receipts never came back. On Wednesday morning we had problem with the meter box I called the call centre around 12:30 gave me a good service said I should wait for at least 4hours as she is still going to escalate the matter to Daveton technicians four hours passed without any assistant I called again around 17:20 using this ref no: 157224243 I was assisted by Ranku Modise what a poor service I got he even told me that I must wait for 11 days as they find that we don't but electricity according as I asked his that does that appear on his system he didn't want to co-operate I asked him to call his supervisor he refused said " the supervisor is busy and I asked him if they have one supervisor on the floor he said yes then decided to take my detail said he will ask the supervisor to call me back" even today im still waiting for the call. I then decided to call again AT 18:00I spoke to Henrick thanx to Henrick as he gave me a better clarity and gave me a new ref no and Eskom technician came around 19:50 but the said part is that he said he cant assist as they don't have new meter box and apparently they is 5 house with the same problem. Eskom please Im appealing, do something about this is now too much.

I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU AS ESKOM DONT NOTIFY CONSUMERS WHEN THERE IS PREPAID PURCHASING PROBLEMS. I HAVE BEEN IN KRAAIFONTEIN , KLAPMUTS AND PAARL. NOWHERE CAN I PURCHASE PREPAID POWER. YOUR SERVICES IS BECOMMING MORE AND MORE PATHETIC. AND WHEN I CALLED THE CALL CENTRE , THE LADY THAT ANSWERED JUST SAID , THE SYSTEM BROKE AND WE CANNOT TELL YOU HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO REPAIR. BASICALLY LAUGHING AS WELL...ESKOM AND ITS STAFF MAKE ME SICK... PRIVATE COMPANIES SHOULD TAKE OVER ESKOM , BECAUSE CLEARLY OUR GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO THERE JOBS RIGHT!!!!

Dear All,

I'm writing this today because I do not know what to do anymore. I bought a house in December 2014 in the mentioned area Delmas. After all the paperwork with the lawyer was done I moved to Delmas in December 2104. I went to visit the ESKOM office to request my electricity to be connected as there was no electricity. They gave me the call center numbers to phone to request for a new move in as well as re-connection. This was done on numerous occasions via the telephone with many references. See below.

So I was told that the previous owners was in arrears on their electricity bill and they can only connect electricity once this is paid. (Amount R27036-39). On 18 Feb 2015 this was paid by the lawyer. I again request ESKOM for connection but without any luck and many more phone calls for follow-up. I even went to the Petit office trying to sort out the problem. The office in Delmas keep on telling me that they will connect if I pay the outstanding bill. I could not understand as there could not be any outstanding bills because it was paid in Feb 2015.

After numerous emails to and forth between me and the Delmas office without telling me about the outstanding amount I decided to sent an email to [email protected] who informed me that there is another outstanding amount for December to Marh 2015 for the amount of R7966-70 that I need to pay.

So my question how can there be a bill for this amount and period if there is no electricity at the house an o connection, no box at the electricity pole as it was removed somewhere in 2014 due to previous owners request.

So now because of such a bill which is an unfair practice to blame me for this as I never use one single bit of electricity since Dec 2014, i get penalized and not electricity.

Is it possible that anyone can give me feedback on this please as I only need my electricity to eb connected. Currently I'm using a generator which is extremely expensive on fuel every day. Hope to hear fro you soon.

(See all the reference numbers in connection with this issue)
Eskom Delmas - Alex - 0136932419 - Dec 14
Eskom Delmas - 0136651030 en technician - Naty Manjato – Dec 14
Eskom 0136900111 en Delmas - 0860104170 – Jan 15
Eskom Petit is 0860037566 - Charlie - ref no 139626343 - Jan 15
And 140954764
For re-connection - ref no is 139705626 - Jan 15
On 19 Feb I phoned Oscar Mazuku and again - Petit Eskom - Juliet – re-connection ref no is 139749379
Ref: 139705626 Oscar Mazuka
Ref: 139749379 – 19 Feb - Juliet
Ref: 0860037566
Ref: 141041715 Pogo 13 Maart 12:40
Ref: 140869512 Estelle 16 Maart 08:45
Ref: 140869512 Elsa 17 Maart 12:15


Regards

HI SIR/MADAM EARLY MAY 2014 MY BOX WAS STOLEN AND I DID REPORT THE MATER TO THE POLICE AND THEY GAVE ME A CASE NUMBER(117/05/14) AND THEN I DID THE FOLLOW UP I CALEED ESKOM MANY TIMES AND TOLD THEM MY PROBLEM ALL THEY DID THEY JUST SAY TO ME THAT THEY WILL COME,IAM STAYING AT MARIBA TERMA NEXT TO STEVENLUMBER FACTORY,WHAT HURT ME THE MOST IS THAT IAM USING MY AIRTIME TO CALL THEM ON TOP OF THAT THEY STILL HAVE THE GUARDS TO GO BACK TO THEIR OFFICE AT MANKWENG THEY TELL THERE MANGER THAT THEY DID INSTALL THE METERBOX AND THEY DID NOT SO PLEASE AS HEAD OF ESKOM PLEASE HELP ME MY KIDS ARE STUDYING BADLY BECAUSE WE DNT HAVE ELECTRIC THEY ARE USING CANDLESS,IAM STAYING AT MARIBA TERMA STAND NO 435 POLE NUMBER(01A03) REFERENCE NUMER(136353164) I WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU KINDLY HELP US HERE I MY NUMBERS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTACT ME 0606367420/0723305572/0762020518 HERE I MY REFERENCES BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN CALLING THEM(137191252/137103435/1538457/13687200/137102194/135749898/136353164)NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT I WAS USING MY KIDS MONEY SO THAT I CAN GET HELP SO PLEASE CONTACT THEM(0152990700)AND TELL THEM WHY THEY RENDER US THE SRVICE THAT WE NEED.THANKS IAM STEVEN MAAKE I WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU COULD HELP ME SO THAT I CAN ALSO SAVE MONEY AND GIVE MY KIDS A BETTER LIFE AND EDUCATION

Hi, early January of 2013 I applied for electricity connection from my nearest eskom office and they gave me application ref number. When doing the follow up they are telling me that they are not responsible for my area, and should wait for IDP. I liased with the counselor just to be updated on IDP, and he assured me that they will electricity connection runnung soon. They were about three IDP's took place and not even one of them did connection on my house. Lastly came a guy from eskom and just said they done with the connections and it seems like eskom also want to retrench people he was actually not in working mood and he drove off.

I called eskom call center and lodged a complain, they also said they will call me within 7days to attend my complain, even today I am still waiting for that call.

My plea is to ask is there not any other means that eskom they can do just to connect electricity to my place?
Why did the eskom office waste my time by giving me connection ref number then later they said they are not responsible for that area?
How many IDP's must I wait before eskom can connect electricity to my place?

Here are the ref numbers. The second connection ref. 120113456. Complaint ref. 123445739

good Day Mzimkhulu Ntlabati


Thank you for using Eskom's e-mail facility. We refer to your e-mail received on 13/03/14 at 13.47

We apologize for the delay and inconvenience with regards to your query. Kindly be advised that your account related complaint has been escalated to the relevant Area office for investigation. Your Eskom Reference number is 116892701 should you need to do a follow up.

For your convenience, you are welcomed to register on our Eskom website and report faults directly. Our automated system will provide you with a reference number immediately. Please feel welcome to call our contact centre or use any of the other channels listed below, should you need to update any of your correspondence details.


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The investigation takes for ever

This is a complaint

I was Disconnected on Wednesday the 7th of December and You demanded R4968 that included R3100 and Undisclosed sum of R1200 of which is a really scam and R590 sum I don’t see why I have to pay since its you who disconnected me and now for you to do your job and bloody reconnect me I have to pay you again.

There is a standard 24 hours to reconnect so why isn’t there a standard 24 hours before the Disconnection then and inform me by saying Kaizer Phatedi we will disconnect you in 24hours if you don’t pay and avoid this running around like headless chickens busy faxing faxing proof of payments as I after I paid on Wednesday I did fax the proof of payment to the number 051 404 2627 that I was given in the call centre and the 086 number of a certain Doctor Nya sumthing at Zonkezizwe in Katlehong who is on leave and now on Thursday I call again to confirm the receipt of the proof of payment and I am told that they didn’t receive and that’s totally ridiculous as I did my part and for you to do your part you are stalling and I sent someone to refax at 10H15 in the morning on the 8th of December 2011 and in 20 minutes it will be 24 hours and you haven’t yet reconnected me and don’t smooth talk and say Eskom apologizes for that cos I am beyond that …..reconnect me as soon as possible

Poor Service by you and it leaves a lot to be desired hence there are complaints and negative reactions to your service.