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VOL.10 ISSUE #9 JUNE 9-16, 2023
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called Emmasdal CYCC to be renamed toResidents update prepaid meters! after the late Busi Modisakeng! The City of Ekurhuleni will from 1 June 23 update its prepaid electricity meters in a quest to supply uninterrupted electricity to its customers.
The Gauteng Department of Social Development will soon rename Emmasdal Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC) after the late Executive Mayor of Sedibeng District Municipality, Busisiwe Joyce Modisakeng.
The current electricity meters will automatically stop working by 24 November 2024 owing to a date rollover problem, unless each individual meter is updated.
Modisakeng was a South African Anti-Apartheid Activist, born 30 October 1966 and she was the first female Executive Mayor in the Lesedi Municipality and the youngest mayor in Gauteng. She served in various political positions before she became Executive Mayor. In the early eighties the family of Modisakeng moved to Ratanda township where she pursued her studies at Ratanda Secondary School. It was during the apartheid era when she served as COSAS Secretary in Heidelberg Branch. Before she was appointed the Executive Mayor, she served as a Municipality Speaker. Modisakeng served three terms as a mayor and held various academic qualifications in Leadership and Project Management. The people’s mayor died two years ago at the age of fifty-five during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Sedibeng Stakeholder Relations regional Representative, Mr. Thabo Maila, Modisakeng’ s name had a meaning to Ratanda community since she was a leader.
This means residents will no longer be able to load electricity on them after the said deadline. The Token Identifier (TID) rollover programme that the City is using to update the electricity meters will continue until 24 November 2024. sulted with the deceased’s family and mobilizing meetings with the community leaders where the attendance register was signed by everyone present. Posters were also disseminated in various platforms to inform the community about the renaming of the CYCC,” says Maila. “ The team made sure that we consolidate all the information, and we presented the file to Stakeholder Relations Chief Director Mr. Bongane Ngomane to be completed and signed and other stakeholders in the community were also involved. Then the completed application was submitted to Geographical Name Change Committee (GGNC) with all the relevant documents, “ says Maila.
“She used to spend most of her time serving the community and she would even take food from home and share with the community. One of the community members said it will be an honour if Emmasdal CYCC could be renamed “Busi Modisakeng CYCC” as she cared for the community. Mr. Ngomane said the transformation and standardizing of names is undertaken for the purpose .
“As part of the process we con-
Her husband Sanky Modisakeng said the passing of her wife has left a huge gap in the community since she was a caring mother of the nation.
“This project is therefore assumed to be educational and patriotic. Factors such as the wishes of the local community must not conflict with the principles of the South African Geographic Name committee (SAGNC) or Gauteng Geographic Name committee, redress where a name is changed based on historical consideration and any other relevant factors which SAGNC may identify,” said Ngomane.
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Maila said to rename the Emmasdal CYCC they followed the process in accordance with the South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) Act, 1998.
Tokens that were purchased but not entered before the deadline will be rendered invalid. To update, when making the first purchase of electricity after the system settings, a client will receive a receipt with three tokens on it that need to be entered in the sequence as printed on the receipt. The update takes about two minutes to process. This change will affect all prepaid meter customers with 11 digits on it, not only the City of Ekurhuleni prepaid electricity meters. The process will commerce in Edenvale and Nigel areas from 1 June 2023. Dates for other areas will be communicated soon. For more information about this migration, clients must log on to tidrollover.com or the STS Association website, www.tidrollover. com or call on their nearest customer care centres (CCC).
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