Eskom steps in to manage distribution in three provinces’ councils

Eskom has moved to manage electricity distribution at several local government councils in three provinces in an intervention hailed as financial salvation by the utility but decried by union leaders as a threat to the autonomy of local government.

At a press conference on Monday, energy & electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said the municipalities that had signed up to the so-called distribution agency agreements were in Limpopo, the Free State and Mpumalanga...

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