Emfuleni and Tshwane R7.1bn debt exacerbating Eskom cash flow crisis | The Citizen

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🔌The City of Tshwane and Emfuleni's combined R7 billion debt owed to Eskom is exacerbating the parastatal's cash flow crisis. Click here to read how defaulting municipalities are affecting Eskom: Eskom loadshedding TheCitizenNews

Despite several engagements with the CoT to encourage it to settle its November 2022 account by 31 December 2022, the bill remains outstanding, Qithi said.

“We have approached the Department of Co-Operative Governance & Traditional Affairs to try and mediate in this matter. So we are waiting for the report from Cogta as to what is the next step to take.” “But whilst that is happening, we are also constantly engaging with the City of Tshwane management to try and see what can be done for them to actually honour their account,” Qithi said.“We made the same plea to the CoT to settle its long outstanding invoice of November 2022, in a meeting on 5 January 2023, but to no avail.”does not have the financial capacity to finance the Tshwane’s or any other municipalities operations, Qithi said.

“We urge the municipalities to pay and the municipalities customers to pay their accounts and for the service they received.” Qithi added.

 

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Eskom_SA what about Soweto?

What about Soweto’s 5 billion alone? Tshwane is a metropolitan, they will pay and Emfuleni is just a small corrupt and incompetent municipality which won’t pay. Eskom seems to go for those whom they don’t fear.

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