North West municipalities avoid power interruptions through Eskom agreements
Six municipalities in the North West Province seem to have made a breakthrough with Eskom to avoid facing scheduled interruptions to their power — a consequence of defaulting on their debt to Eskom. Eskom announced that the local municipalities of Ditsabotla, Lekwa-Teemane, Mamusa, Naledi, Tswaing, Kgetlengrivier have all avoided scheduled interruptions to their electricity due to start on Thursday and run through to next week Wednesday. Combined, the province’s defaulting municipalities owe Eskom about R1bn. Eskom has stressed that the measure of interrupting power provision to indebted municipalities was a last resort for councils that repeatedly defaulted on their commitments. North West provincial treasury spokesperson Kesalopa Gill told Business Day the province developed catch-up plans for arrears amounts and municipalities had to honour them by September 8, which they did. "A total amount of R27.1m was paid by the affected municipalities on or before September 8 in line with ...
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