Multiple municipalities risk Eskom power cuts as deals remain unsigned
According to National Treasury, none of the 14 municipalities that have until 1 September to conclude a Distribution Agency Agreement (DAA) with Eskom to avoid having their electricity supply cut off has done so yet.
National Treasury set deadlines by which the municipalities first had to adopt council resolutions indicating that they were prepared to appoint Eskom as their agent for electricity distribution.
A working group – comprising representatives from Eskom, National Treasury, municipal association Salga and the departments of Electricity and Energy, and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs – was supposed to develop a more balanced standard contract, but this has not yet happened.
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