78. Vending at the Heart of Prepayment Management

Situated at the southern-most tip of Africa, the City of Cape Town metropolitan council covers an area of 1235 km². It is made up of seven smaller municipalities, which were merged to form one Unicity in 2000. The electricity services department provides power to 520,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers, and 73% of the residential customers (380,000) have a prepayment meter installed in their home.