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New customers with prepayment meters receive a once-off allocation of 40 Kilowatt-hour units, to allow time to purchase a new prepayment token,\u201d the city said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation is placed as an arrear amount on the prepayment meter account and is recovered with the first monetary transaction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a new house is an exciting achievement but for some, an unexpected electricity bill of the previous owner, can end the celebration.It is against this backdrop the City of Ekurhuleni has encouraged new home owners to apply and register prepaid me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New homeowners urged to register prepaid meters in their names - 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