Joburg issues warnings to national and provincial governments after Tshwane power cuts

[Jan]

Pay up or else — Johannesburg warning after Pretoria power cuts

The DA-led City of Johannesburg could soon begin cutting off electricity and water to customers with outstanding bills for municipal services, The Sunday Times reports.

The newspaper has a spreadsheet detailing R556 million in debt owed by the ANC-led national and provincial governments.

 

[marine1]

Good !!! we have to pay so they must too, for too long people have been getting away with murder, especially local gvt departments, cut them all off !! next go to townships and do the same

 

[blah99]

How did the arrears get to be that much?

Were the ANC asleep when they were in power?

Thank goodness for the DA.

 

[TheChamp]

How did arrears get to be that much?

Were the ANC asleep when they were in power?

Thank goodness for the DA.

Was the DA asleep when they were in power for the previous term in Tshwane? Did they not see the outstanding bill grow to 17bn?

 

[Hemi300c]

Cut off the power everyone knows the rules.
Charge huge reconnecting fees as well.

 

[moklet]

I don't see them cutting hospitals very soon.

 

[j4ck455]

In a statement, the University of Pretoria (UP) said the actions smacked of “political grandstanding”.

According to the metro, the UP’s High-Performance Centre owed it R34 million. UP paid its disputed bill shortly before the metro could switch off its services.

UP criticised the city’s approach and claimed it had attempted to resolve the billing for months.

“Our proactive attempts to engage with the City have been ignored,” said the university.

“Despite this, we have committed to pay the alleged outstanding amount, pending the outcome of the dispute.”

The university claimed it made an immediate payment to prevent interruption, despite not receiving prior notice or a detailed account, which it requested from the council months ago.
“Fortunately, the university was able to pay the amount as money was set aside when we became aware of the disagreement last year,” the university said.

If I were embroiled in a billing dispute with the municipality, I would spend that set aside R34m on going off grid for electricity (water is obviously not as easy).

The City of Tshwane tweet that is quoted does smack of politicking:

https://twitter.com/CityTshwane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492123674312335360%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_

 

[Hemi300c]

I don't see them cutting hospitals very soon.

Hospitals, old age homes etc should be handled differently all other cut off even SAPS metro etc seeing as they don't provide a service anyway.

 

[RudderVator]

I dont defend Soweto easily but your own Government, Public hospitals etc that does not pay electricity and yet they want to come into soweto as an example and come and lecture people about overloading the grid and stealing electricity.

Proceeds to cut them off randomly when load in the area is high yet the very same Government does not pay either??

 

[blah99]

Was the DA asleep when they were in power for the previous term in Tshwane? Did they not see the outstanding bill grow to 17bn?

They did see it. Hence they are fixing it.

What did the corrupt and incompetent ANC do.....in every municipality that these clowns run?

 

[system32]

Only 4% of Alex residents paying for electricity - City Power​

Only 4% of Alex residents paying for electricity - City Power

The utility said it was taking action to address overloading on the network and to recover lost revenue caused by illegal connections.

ewn.co.za

Sort that out - I dare you.

 

[epah]

Only 4% of Alex residents paying for electricity - City Power​

Only 4% of Alex residents paying for electricity - City Power

The utility said it was taking action to address overloading on the network and to recover lost revenue caused by illegal connections.

ewn.co.za

Sort that out - I dare you.

I am moving to alex. Life seems to be nice in the township. You get everything for free and pay close to nothing for rent. But man those rodents.

 

[TedLasso]

I don't see them cutting hospitals very soon.

They shouldn't. Hospitals should be exempt .

 

[casperg]

They did see it. Hence they are fixing it.

What did the corrupt and incompetent ANC do.....in every municipality that these clowns run?

No, they did not. For the last about six years the DA was in charge of Tswhane and did absolutely nothing to collect outstanding debts from the state departments. Only the vulnerable residents were targeted, to the extend that we were not allowed to be more than a day late.

It is only now, when Escom threatens Tswane for being hugely in arrears that the are politically grandstanding. And they are making a meal of it, already lost their first court case and was forced to reconnect services.

 

[Wut]

I am moving to alex. Life seems to be nice in the township. You get everything for free and pay close to nothing for rent. But man those rodents.

Free braai meat...

 

[blah99]

No, they did not. For the last about six years the DA was in charge of Tswhane and did absolutely nothing to collect outstanding debts from the state departments. Only the vulnerable residents were targeted, to the extend that we were not allowed to be more than a day late.

It is only now, when Escom threatens Tswane for being hugely in arrears that the are politically grandstanding. And they are making a meal of it, already lost their first court case and was forced to reconnect services.

So Eskom only threatens the DA run municipalities?

 

[ShaunyCT]

No, they did not. For the last about six years the DA was in charge of Tswhane and did absolutely nothing to collect outstanding debts from the state departments. Only the vulnerable residents were targeted, to the extend that we were not allowed to be more than a day late.

It is only now, when Escom threatens Tswane for being hugely in arrears that the are politically grandstanding. And they are making a meal of it, already lost their first court case and was forced to reconnect services.

Well.. It took DA 6 yrs to fix this ... And cANCer?? cANCer did nothing since 1994...

 

[casperg]

So Eskom only threatens the DA run municipalities?

No, do not think so.
Umfeleni was taken to court by Escom, sure there are others.

 

[ShaunyCT]

But I also think that in 1994 b4 the election the municipalities were probably up to date or 10c behind

 

[TheChamp]

But I also think that in 1994 b4 the election the municipalities were probably up to date or 10c behind

Speculating on that is a waste of time because you won't have anything to back that up and many of the municipalities as they are now did not exist in 1994.