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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...
Municipality ends contract with the Rand Water Board
A municipality in Mpumalanga has ended its contract with the Rand Water Board, opting to sort itself out instead – at a fraction of the cost. According to Bushbuckridge Mayor Sylvia Nxumalo, the municipality was paying about R24m a month to the board for the supply of...
SA sees expanded municipal bonds spreading debt burden
South Africa is working on policy and regulatory reforms to make it easier for municipalities to borrow in capital markets to finance infrastructure projects, said the National Treasury. About half of infrastructure spending by large cities is funded by national...
Billions in irregular expenditure, fewer clean audits – AG report paints bleak picture of municipalities
Clean audits in municipalities have significantly dropped and have been accompanied by a drastic rise in irregular expenditure to the tune of R12.1 billion. This is according to the results of the municipal audits released by Auditor-General (AG) Kimi Makwetu in...
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