Growing up in a community where most households had bridged electricity meter boxes was a challenge for some pupils who could not study at night.

It was for this reason that two 17-year-olds, Kabelo Mamiane and Shaun Makhobo from Mashishing (Lydenburg) in Mpumalanga, came up with an idea to develop an ultra-secure meter box that cannot be tampered with, thus reducing millions of rand of losses made by Eskom and municipalities due to bypassed systems...