We are filling this petition in our dark households with no electricity .
Since the beginning of lockdown in 2020 on the 23rd of March , No one from the BCM meter reading team came to do meter reading till today . But as BCM residents we have experienced abnormal charges in water and electricity bills of which we fail to understand how did it happen .
Even residents who fall under Indigent (Sassa beneficiaries and unemployed people) are also suffering from this madness of BCM accounts .
This blockage of Electricity shows clear that Buffalo City Municipality does not value it's residents and exploiting them to highest level of disgust.
As BCM residents we demand these following .
*How did we end up with these ridiculous bills charged in our accounts after we have not seen anyone from meter reading team coming to our homes in the last 10months.
*We demand this madness and exploitation of residents to be dealt with .
*We demand reading of meters 1st before we being charged ridiculous amounts .
*We demand BCM to clear all the Water and Electricity bills charged to it's residents from the 1st of January 2021 .
*We also demand further investigation to be conducted against BCM Accounts employees including the company responsible for Maintainance of Water and Electricity.
We are kindly request the Mayor and the staff of BCM accounts to respond to us as Residents no later than the Friday the 29 of January 2021 .
Or we will be forced to take the streets because we cannot live in darkness because of negligence of BCM Accounts employees .
At the end of the day we are voters and we have right to running water and electricity.
Regards
Buffalo City Municipality Residents
Updates
January 23, 2021
we just hit 2500 signatures on this. honestly its overwhelming to see so many people dealing with the same unfair bills and finally speaking up.
Reached 2,500 supporters
January 22, 2021
January 22, 2021
im honestly blown away by how many people are finally speaking up about these bills. it feels like bcm cant ignore us now that we have this much momentum behind us.
Reached 1,000 supporters
January 22, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
January 22, 2021
January 21, 2021
we are almost at a thousand signatures and it is time to turn up the pressure on the bcm office. please send this link to your neighbors so they know we are fighting back against these unfair bills together.
2,666 Comments
My parents are both pensioners staying together depending on this money, but municipality blocked electricity because of bill with amount of R21 000.00. No one knows what's going on and the statement is clean, we don't know if its water or electricity
This is ridiculous its a year I paud more than 100 000.I live with daughtet.This is not on I have beeb visiting Offices at BCM to install prepaid but to no avail.This makes me not to sleep overchargong us like this nooooooooo .what are we paying for????
I am one of BCMM residents charged abnormal although during the week no one in my house, we are 2 at home and arrived late from work. We are available in weekends, I went to BCMM office in Mdantsane City Mall NU 6 many times but nothing change in my bill
I have been experiencing the same treatment and we have not even skipped a month but we are told we were under charged whilst there was no meter readers. Worse our municipality does not have disputes resolution programme to deal with this matter.
We are very disappointed with the way BCM is rating us with such high bills you are at work the whole day 5days of the week you come home late you start using water for cooking you find out that you are billed for 4000litres of water this is uncalled for
All those bills for water charges must be written off.
The electricity charge is too hi bra, ngekhe
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We are filling this petition in our dark households with no electricity .
Since the beginning of lockdown in 2020 on the 23rd of March , No one from the BCM meter reading team came to do meter reading till today . But as BCM residents we have experienced abnormal charges in water and electricity bills of which we fail to understand how did it happen .
Even residents who fall under Indigent (Sassa beneficiaries and unemployed people) are also suffering from this madness of BCM accounts .
This blockage of Electricity shows clear that Buffalo City Municipality does not value it's residents and exploiting them to highest level of disgust.
As BCM residents we demand these following .
*How did we end up with these ridiculous bills charged in our accounts after we have not seen anyone from meter reading team coming to our homes in the last 10months.
*We demand this madness and exploitation of residents to be dealt with .
*We demand reading of meters 1st before we being charged ridiculous amounts .
*We demand BCM to clear all the Water and Electricity bills charged to it's residents from the 1st of January 2021 .
*We also demand further investigation to be conducted against BCM Accounts employees including the company responsible for Maintainance of Water and Electricity.
We are kindly request the Mayor and the staff of BCM accounts to respond to us as Residents no later than the Friday the 29 of January 2021 .
Or we will be forced to take the streets because we cannot live in darkness because of negligence of BCM Accounts employees .
At the end of the day we are voters and we have right to running water and electricity.
Regards
Buffalo City Municipality Residents
Updates
January 23, 2021
we just hit 2500 signatures on this. honestly its overwhelming to see so many people dealing with the same unfair bills and finally speaking up.
Reached 2,500 supporters
January 22, 2021
January 22, 2021
im honestly blown away by how many people are finally speaking up about these bills. it feels like bcm cant ignore us now that we have this much momentum behind us.
Reached 1,000 supporters
January 22, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
January 22, 2021
January 21, 2021
we are almost at a thousand signatures and it is time to turn up the pressure on the bcm office. please send this link to your neighbors so they know we are fighting back against these unfair bills together.
2,666 Comments
I've been struggling since 2019 to get my account sorted out but to no avail. The customer service number just rings. Emails are not responded to. Bcm blocks our electricity if the account is not up to date but don't care when they owe you money
My parents are both pensioners staying together depending on this money, but municipality blocked electricity because of bill with amount of R21 000.00. No one knows what's going on and the statement is clean, we don't know if its water or electricity
This is ridiculous its a year I paud more than 100 000.I live with daughtet.This is not on I have beeb visiting Offices at BCM to install prepaid but to no avail.This makes me not to sleep overchargong us like this nooooooooo .what are we paying for????
I am one of BCMM residents charged abnormal although during the week no one in my house, we are 2 at home and arrived late from work. We are available in weekends, I went to BCMM office in Mdantsane City Mall NU 6 many times but nothing change in my bill
I have been experiencing the same treatment and we have not even skipped a month but we are told we were under charged whilst there was no meter readers. Worse our municipality does not have disputes resolution programme to deal with this matter.
We are very disappointed with the way BCM is rating us with such high bills you are at work the whole day 5days of the week you come home late you start using water for cooking you find out that you are billed for 4000litres of water this is uncalled for
All those bills for water charges must be written off.
The electricity charge is too hi bra, ngekhe
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I've been struggling since 2019 to get my account sorted out but to no avail. The customer service number just rings. Emails are not responded to. Bcm blocks our electricity if the account is not up to date but don't care when they owe you money