Will the promise of free basic electricity secure votes and is it even a viable solution?
“If they don’t, municipalities face a straight revenue shortfall on top of already-fragile finances, and given the track record of municipal billing systems and indigent register accuracy in South Africa, that’s a real risk,” “An open-ended commitment to expanded free electricity, contingent on savings that haven’t yet been demonstrated at scale, inverts the normal sequencing of fiscally responsible policy design,” Hattingh told The Citizen.
Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramakgopa is being warned not to put the cart before the horse in suggesting an increase in the free basic electricity (FBE) threshold.
The ANC's election manifesto echoed the electricity minister's call to increase the free basic electricity threshold by up to six times.
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