Perhaps a ridiculously long convoy of Eskom trucks and machinery heading towards Cape Town was an ominous sign for Western Cape train commuters. CapeTimesSA
Creative accounting won the day – yet again – as the National Treasury had to oblige a request to turn capital into operational funds to keep the trains running as the troubled rail agency had depleted its operational budget – just another Eskom customer guilty of not settling its bills on time.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula wasn't impressed. Nor was Cape Town mayor Dan Plato. Punch-drunk Cape Town train commuters – long used to being left unimpressed – were completely apoplectic and paralysed . Twitter, of course, expressed outrage. Jacques Maree voiced the question on everyone's lips in the Western Cape.
"Can someone explain whether this unpaid Eskom bill was a Western Cape only account or for Prasa nationally? If nationally, why was only the Western Cape cut off? "How does Eskom justify leaving 290 000 people stranded with no alternatives? And shouldn't the Metro run these trains?"Can someone explain whether this unpaid Eskom bill was a Western Cape only account or for Prasa nationally? If nationally, why was only the Western Cape cut off? How does Eskom justify leaving 290,000 people stranded with no alternatives? And shouldn't the Metro run these...
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