Services

Electricity

Most modern flats and apartments have an electricity meter where you buy prepaid electricity from various outlets (Pick n Pay, Post office) and top up your electricity box.For a 3 bedroom apartment you can expect to pay R250 a month.

TV licensing

First-time applicants for a television licence must pay the full annual fee of R225. Payment options: Banks, the Post Office, Retailers, Easypay points, direct debit and SABC Head Office and branches.

Retailers: Checkers, Checkers Hyper Stores, Shoprite Money Market Kiosk, Hi-Fi Corporation, Makro & Game.

Easy pay points: Pick ‘n Pay Supermarkets, Hypermarkets and Family Stores nationwide, Foodworld, Saveworld and Hypersavers (in the Western Cape).

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DSTV

Monthly subscription for a package like "Compact Bouquet" which consists of 16 channels, giving you hundreds of programmes and channels like Living TV, Sky News, Hallmark Cartoon Network ect and costs R199 per month. Installation costs are R649 for the standard decoder and you will have to have a dish installed. Visits DSTV for further details.

Get the DSTV personal video recorder & decoder (R2999) to record programmes and watch it when you like.

Internet Cafes

These have popped up all over the place but are not as cheap as UK's Easy Jet internet for a £1 per hour. You can end up paying R30 per hour if you are not careful. It is best to buy a contract with a cafe, something like R120 buys you 6 hours.

Vodacom shops.

PostNet charges R7 for 30 mins.

catwalk TV charges R10 per hour. Great shop near Green Market Square in Cape Town.

Post Office

It costs R234 Rand to own your own post box through the Post Office.