SA’s broken municipalities to get R20bn – almost as much as health – Emergency budget
Finance minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday delivered a supplementary national budget that, he said in the written version of his speech, “saves lives, protects livelihoods and actively builds a bridge to a prosperous future”. It also channels a lot of...
Joburg prepaid electricity customers in for a shock
A household could see an increase of almost 50% as the city works to level pre- and post-paid charges. Joburg households and businesses using prepaid electricity are in for a shock if the fixed charges proposed in the city’s draft budget are approved. It was tabled on...
SA sewage is now being checked to track Covid-19 hotspots
The Water Research Commission is hunting for traces of the Covid-19-causing coronavirus in South Africa’s wastewaterStudies suggest that genetic material from the virus can remain in human faeces for a number of days and that it would be possible to track disease...
What our electricity bills will cost after the upcoming tariff hike in 2020
Imagine you made a mistake at work that affected the entire country. Your indiscretion wasn’t a one-off, and it cost the economy billions. Now imagine facing your customers and saying “you’ll have to pay me more for this service”. It is Eskom’s world, and we are all...
