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I’ll use my geyser as I choose, thank you

Reg Weaver of Parktown North writes:

Letter to the cloistered Paul Vermeulen of City ‘Powerless’: Your gang will not visit my property! After innumerable calls to 011-375-5555, countless digit depressions and finally unintelligible voices, I demand clarification.
Who gave city council the right to install control devices on geysers? It is my prerogative and mine alone to use my geyser at my discretion, for electrical power for which I pay exorbitant fees just to line the pockets of the useless Eskom fat cats. Their total failure to plan, coupled with the glaring inefficiencies of the dysfunctional government are the sole reasons for power shortages and failures. The usual African Snafu!

I suggest you turn off power in certain other areas, where outstanding accounts amount to millions of rands! Who arrived at the mystical fixed rate tariff of R345.80? Is that per month, year, day, hour or once-off? And how is it calculated?

No, no Vermeulen, we’d all like to view the act or government concocted document relating to this latest; ‘let’s bleed our clients to cover our gross inefficiencies in all our incompetent departments’ scam.’

You can call me when you’re not busy with your eight iron, nodding off during one of those unproductive city council meetings or enjoying a freebie lunch. Your turn to press buttons!

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