Ramokgopa implores Eskom to keep Joburg lights on despite its R7bn debt
The country’s most critical metro owes the power utility R7 billion (combining its historical debt with its current account), a debt that city officials have struggled to rein in for years.
Ramokgopa’s interventions in the tensions between Eskom, CoJ and City Power over the sizeable debt saw him broker a deal that stopped the power utility from disconnecting, interrupting or reducing supply to Johannesburg earlier this year.
But the city failed to meet its debt obligations, again setting off Eskom’s Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (Paja) process.
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