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A New Dawn Is Breaking Over Emfuleni
The Emfuleni Electrical Infrastructure Intervention Program (EIIP) Emfuleni for Change NPC (EfC), in a coalition of Business- and Community organizations (including ERPA) have embarked on this Intervention Program to take control of maintenance and support of...
Professor Part of History after COVID-19 RNA Extracted
COVID-19 RNA Found in Sewage Prof Anthony Turton, Professor of Environmental Management: Center for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) made history in South Africa last week becoming the first to extract COVID-19 RNA from various sewage...
Exodus of a Different Kind – Seizure!
ELM Asset Seizure Eskom has confiscated goods worth over 630 million rand belonging to the Emfuleni Municipality for failing to pay debt owed to the power utility. These included dozens of cars among others. #sabcnews This on the back of an article placed by Vaal...
ERPA’s Kobus works with a mission to serve
Kobus Janse van Rensburg’s ‘Damascus’ moment was on 27 March 2018, when he walked from his front door to the sidewalk of his house in SE3, Vanderbijlpark, and saw a shocking sight of four weeks’ refuse that had failed to be collected by the Emfuleni’s Municipal Refuse...
Inspiring Sustainable City
The amazing Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more expensive to build and...
The Smart Meter Saga Continues!!!
Strike 3, Mr. Nkoane - You're Out! How much do you think your constituency will tolerate your ruthless, contemptuous and downright vindictive behavior? No more; we are gatvol! Please go to the ERPA Petition page and sign it, if you believe that Oupa Nkoane should be...
Smart meter replacement wars: Now residents fight to KEEP them – Sedibeng Ster
As losses and costs of Emfuleni Local Municipality’s (ELM’s) smart meter replacement strategy escalate to near R20million already only three weeks into a five-month roll-out, residents of Emfuleni suburbs which earlier bitterly resisted their...
Business piles on more pressure to suspend top officials at “captured” ELM – Sedibeng Ster
Business Chamber to meet Emfuleni regarding extreme concern at the “incompetent and dangerous” manner smart meters were being bridged Click the link in the Source below for the full story… Source: Business piles on more pressure to suspend top...
ERPA Annual General Meeting
Annual General Meeting Book your seat for the ERPA Annual General Meeting now! Seats are limited, so don't delay (you have to be logged in on the website): https://erpa.co.za/agm/ Where: StoneHaven on VaalDate/Time: 29 August 2019, 18:00 for 18:30 to 19:30...
How to Record Smart Meter Issues on the ERPA Website – vaalweekblad
Follow these steps to register on Emfuleni Ratepayers’ Association (ERPA) if you need help with your SmartMeter problems. Click the link in the Source below for the full story on the process... Source: How to Record Smart Meter Issues on the...
ELM announces smart meter “replacements” – Sedibeng Ster
“Any action by ELM to stop vending to consumers will lead to large scale-power interruptions and possible vandalising of meter boxes and equipment. It would also show a total disregard of the rights and expectations of ELM consumers” Click the...
Smart meter company says it “won’t hurt Emfuleni” through mass power cut-off – Sedibeng Ster
To date, it is believed that BXCSA has generated close to R150 million for the local municipality through smart meters but has not received any payment yet from the local authority Click the link in the Source below for the full story......