The Democratic Alliance (DA) would like to know the due diligence made by the PIC before handing money over to the Madibeng Municipality.

The power supplier is not taking any excuses for late payments, and having issues warnings to various municipalities, it’s about to switch the lights off for good.

The Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape has been blamed for the tragic death of a four-year-old boy after ignoring calls to fix playground equipment.

It has been recorded that households account for almost 72% of this total debt.

The Mara Phone Manufacturing Plant is housed at the Dube Trade Port, located in the King Shaka International Airport.

Twenty municipalities aren’t paying the power utility for electricity usage.

Newcastle Municipality: “We have put forward a payment plan and are awaiting Eskom to give us approval.”

The DA and its leader have conducted an inspection on various locations in the Municipality.

The Newcastle Municipality has also been in hot water as it owes Eskom R200 million.

While electricity sales and purchases yielded gains, municipalities failed to improve on managing water and employee costs, Stats SA revealed.

David Mabuza stated the most concerning debt is R19,9 billion municipality debt owed to Eskom

David Mabuza says its time South African citizens to adopted a culture of paying for services that have been rendered and consumed.

Residents have had it with regular power outages.

A forensic report proves that some payments were made for expired contracts.

According to Stats SA, more building plans have been thrown out by municipalities in the first half of 2019, than in the same period last year.

Scopa wants to summon the accounting officers of repeatedly failing municipalities before Parliament to explain themselves.

Financial mismanagement forced the municipality in administration.

Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has called for the heads of those responsible for the poor performance of municipalities to roll.

It’s rises on top of rises for the residents of Johannesburg, as pre-paid electricity customers are facing a new tariff of R200 at the behest of City Power.

AfriForum have been allowed to force the City of Tshwane to halt its planned tariff increases.

City-dwellers, you may have to dig deeper in your pockets just to meet the cost of living. Municipal rates are on the rise across South Africa from Monday onwards.

Some of South Africa’s municipalities won’t be able to afford paying salaries for June. Only 18 municipalities received a clean audit.

According to the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), workers in as many as 30 muncipalities have not been paid for the month of June.

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) held no punches in their response to the Auditor General’s report that only 8% of municipalities got a clean audit score.

The ANC is gearing up for a takeover of the Western Cape, and Cederberg just became theirs…