With the Tshwane YaTima campaign back in full effect, residents are urged to settle their outstanding debt with the municipality or face disconnection.
This was made clear during a recent YaTima operation in Pretoria West, which saw an industrial site disconnected over a R8.3-million debt to the metro.
The team also hit a scrapyard on Soutter Street for an illegal connection as well as a clothing manufacturer owing more than R5-million.
Mmc community safety Rambohannes, we inspected a scrapyard workshop while cutting outstanding electricity accounts and we found a audi from SANDF on site. With lt general, blue lights, with radio , license disc expired, with highly confidential documents on the back seat. SANDF… pic.twitter.com/jWjAAiciWZ
— mmc Community Safety ( Rambohannes (@Rambohannes) February 26, 2025
Bagaetsho, akere we want you to buy legitimate cars. To achieve this, we must get rid of illegal car dealerships, just as we did in Region 2 today. We will reclaim this city, one by one 🙏 pic.twitter.com/rBeIMWpK2t
— Dr Nasiphi Moya (@nasiphim) February 26, 2025
#TshwaneYaTima Teams doing the work that needs to be done to collect revenue and delete illegal electricity connections across Pretoria West. With accounts in arrears totalling well over 10 million. @Rambohannes @CityTshwane @nasiphim pic.twitter.com/5ZrZQKk6u4
— Adru Bosch (@adrubosch) February 26, 2025
Tshwane MMC for Community Safety, Hannes Coetzee, led the effort in the west on February 26 and said the metro did not want to go around shutting off services but would do what it must to recover the funds owed.
“We don’t just want to cut electricity, we would like to encourage residents to approach us. Please, if there’s a problem with your account, come to our offices and get an official to assist you. We would like to encourage you, we don’t just want to cut but we want to run a clean city. We want to run a city where you can feel safe but with accounts like this, we have no choice but to cut. So we encourage you to come to the offices, there will be someone who can assist you and if there’s any problem, you can escalate [it] to higher officials but let’s not continue having accounts like this that are outstanding by R8.3-million,” Coetzee said.
The Tshwane Ya Tima revenue collection campaign seeks to disconnect services to defaulting clients who run up high service bills then fail to pay the city.
PTA West, Soutter street: interlinking #IllegalConnections, yah neh cables moving from one property to another @Rambohannes#TshwaneYaTima pic.twitter.com/tP2JxpjSOD
— City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) February 26, 2025
The campaign targets all non-paying customers, including businesses, individual households and residential estates.
The campaign will also target about 1 500 high-end defaulting consumers who owe the city billions of rands.
Watch here:
MMC @Rambohannes hard
at work #TshwaneYaTima pic.twitter.com/1JnJ1IVmE4— City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) February 26, 2025
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