The judges said the scale of the debt ‘has given rise to a state of disaster’ that Emfuleni has to yet ‘realistically confront’. Moneyweb Eskom
Eskom will take over the electricity business of Emfuleni Municipality with consumers paying the power utility directly in terms of an “agency agreement”. This is the upshot of a court ruling handed down this week which revealed that the municipality, which owes Eskom about R3.5 billion, is in a “state of disaster”. Pretoria High Court judges Selby Baqwa, Gcina Malindi and acting judge Irene de Vos said that while Emfuleni had collected R4.
Eskom gets Sheriff to attach Emfuleni assets The court granted the interdict and ordered the municipality to issue invoices to the companies specifying the Eskom tariff separately in order to facilitate direct payments. But the municipality did not comply with the order. Its appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal failed. Spiralling debt In the meantime, Emfuleni’s electricity debt “spiralled out of control”. By 2021, it stood at R3.5 billion.
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