About us

Electro Cuts is a level 1 Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Contributor with twenty four years experience with revenue enhancement for Municipalities in South Africa. We have clients in three provinces: Gauteng, Free State and the Western Cape. Electro Cuts is a well-established Company with experinece ranging from small Municipalities (Mkhondo Local Municipality) to Metro Municipalities (City of Johannesburg and City of Ekurhuleni)

Electro Cuts is committed to your peace of mind. Our focus is to assist Municipalities to enhance the existing revenue base and then to identify new opportunities to broaden their income streams.

Since 1995, Electro Cuts has grown in leaps and bounds, partnering with a significant number of municipalities country-wide with resounding results. Although the company was predominantly white at its formation, it evolved over the period to reflect the demographics of this country.

The Company has an inclusive philosophy towards empowerment and believes that communities and other Black Economic Empowerment groupings’ participation is critical to its future success.

Electro Cuts (Pty) Ltd has a well-established tradition to meet broad commercial and business opportunities, forge strategic partnerships with other businesses with experience, expertise, leverage funding and other compensative funding advantages.

Services

Electro Cuts’ core businesses and competencies and operational expertise developed and acquired over a period of 24 years can be broadly paced into two categories: meter reading and credit control.

  • Final demand delivery
  • Delivery of pretermination notices
  • Disconnection and reconnection of water and electricity
  • Full credit control process management
  • Illegal consumption investigations
  • Investigations and removal of water and electricity tamper/illegal connections
  • Removal and reinstatement of electricity cables (Underground and Overhead)
  • Management of court cases with regard to the illegal water and electricity connections.
  • Installation and supply of smart metering solutions
  • Reading of water, electricity and demand meters
  • Proof reading and re-reading of meters
  • First and final readings
  • Reporting on damaged, removed and tampered meters
  • Reporting on new connections
  • Opening of buried water meters
  • Customer notification

Technology Inovation

Electro Cuts designed and developed its own credit and meter management system, known as Electro Cuts CMS. Electro Cuts CMS manages the municipal utilities procedures and is web/mobile phone based with various interface capabilities. The system has been developed using the latest Android and Internet technologies and security encryption methods.

The Electro Cuts CMS was designed specifically to meet the needs of Local Government in a society dominated by technology. Electro Cuts CMS comprises of the following: credit control management, meter reading management, asset management, indigent management, reporting of potholes and the repair process thereof, reporting of faulty traffic lights and again the repair thereof and emergency services as well as “my-municipality websites”.

The Electro Cuts CMS' features includes, but are not limited to the following:

Management

Jack Gededja

Jack Gededja is a social science graduate from University of Limpopo and paralegal studies from University of Pretoria. Jack has a wealth of experience ranging from public service to the private sector, working in the publishing environment and in Academia as a Project Coordinator at the University of Pretoria Law Clinic.

After having amassed this wealth of experience, Jack joined Electro Cuts as Business Development Executive, and later he became the Chief Executive Officer after acquiring shares within the company.

Elaine Maritz

Twenty Four years ago in 1995, Elaine and her husband Theo saw a market requirement to deliver high quality outsourced solutions to local government entities especially in the fields of credit control and revenue management and they founded Electro Cuts CC. During the course of the past eighteen years, Elaine has guided the company towards the entity it has become; a successful business managed on the highest ethical and moral standards capable of providing Local Government with excellent service.

Before becoming a Director of Electro Cuts, Elaine spent 15 years in the employment of the Department of Labour; where she held the position of senior accountant.

Elaine now holds the position of Executive Director in Electro Cuts