Midcity Marketing

By – Derrick Masilela, Product Marketer It’s clear that upgrading from STS-1 to STS-2 is crucial for ensuring the continued functionality of prepaid meters, especially given the TID rollover issue and the fact that STS-1-compliant meters will stop accepting credit tokens after November 2024. To ensure smooth implementation, you can read the following breakdown of […]

By MidCity Utilities Municipal tariff increases refer to the adjustments in the fees and charges imposed by local municipalities for various public services such as electricity, water and sanitation supply. These increments are often necessary to address rising operational costs and fund infrastructure improvements, ensuring the sustainability of essential services. While these adjustments can be

By Derrick Masilela, Product Marketing Administrator As we approach the halfway mark of the year, we’re preparing for ESKOM’s annual tariff increase. On 2 April 2024, ESKOM announced that they would be implementing a tariff hike starting 1 July 2024, along with municipal increases from the same date. This decision followed the determination of increases

By Daleen van Dyk, Director IT & Marketing, MidCity Property Group In the digital landscape, where digital transactions are the lifeblood of countless processes, the smooth and uninterrupted flow of data is paramount. As technology evolves and security threats grow more sophisticated, the importance of necessary changes cannot be overstated. Yet, despite its critical role,

By Dirk Groenewald – Director MidCity Utilities (Pty) Ltd Every year, shortly after the yearly tariff increases have been implemented by Eskom or local Municipalities, we all face the dreaded increase in risk deposit requirements from service providers. (Eskom, local municipalities, utilities service providers, rental responsibility, and other service providers.) Risk deposit increases are not

By Dirk Groenewald – Executive MidCity Utilities (Pty) Ltd We have reached that dreaded time of the year again when Eskom and local municipalities will once again increase their tariffs on all charges and services. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), approved the following electricity increases for 2023 / 2024: Eskom direct clients:

By Dirk Groenewald – Executive MidCity Utilities South Africans have endured the longest and highest levels of load shedding since we became aware of “load shedding” in January 2008. What most notably started as an anomaly, given the great success and recognition Eskom previously received as the best electricity producing entity for many a year,

By Dirk Groenewald, Executive MidCity Utilities Stage 2 Water Restrictions Implemented: Tshwane and Johannesburg South Africa is classified as a water scarce country. We rank as one of the thirty driest countries in the world, with an average rainfall of about 40% less than the annual world average rainfall. Apart from South Africa being a water

By Dirk Groenewald, Executive MidCity Utilities SOUTH AFRICA IS CLASSIFIED AS A WATER-SCARCE COUNTRY. We rank as one of the thirty driest countries in the world, with an average rainfall of about 40% less than the average annual world rainfall. South Africa has an average annual rainfall of less than 500 mm, while that of

By Dirk Groenewald, Chief Utilities Officer As we are all aware, South Africa faces many challenges and none more so than securing consistent and reliable electricity from Eskom and our municipalities. State capture, infrastructure demise, poor service delivery and yearly tariff increases are unfortunate realities that we are all dealing with. What can we do