When these municipalities had English or Afrikaans names, they could pay their accounts – so name changes have caused them to fail and not ‘Apartheid’ or ‘Jan van Riebeeck’.
ANC – corruption – incompetence – illegal electricity connections.
Illegal connections
Illegal electricity connections are a major problem in South Africa. When are they going to do something about it?
MyBroadband reported that about 32% of all electricity delivered by City Power Johannesburg is lost to theft and non-payment, according to electricity expert and director of EE Publishers Chris Yelland.
Government has estimated that electricity theft costs South Africa a massive R4.4-billion every year. These funds have to be made up somewhere. When Eskom applies for a tariff increase, the National Energy Regulator (NERSA) decides how much Eskom can recover from increasing tariffs. So we all end up paying for the stolen electricity.
Three municipalities face dark possibility
Three of the top 20 municipalities that owe Eskom for non-payment of bulk electricity will be switched off this week.
Eskom announced on Friday that it has made repayment arrangements with 17 defaulting municipalities and warned that the remaining parties would experience power interruptions on June 5, 2015 should they fail to reach an agreement.
Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said two of the targeted municipalities are in the Free State and the third is in the Mpumalanga province.
“The three municipalities that have not made agreements with Eskom are Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality, Ngwathe Municipality and Lekwa Local Municipality. Bulk electricity supply in these municipalities will be interrupted should we fail to reach an agreement by next Thursday,” said Phasiwe…
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