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Municipalities owe Eskom R45bn
13 February, 2023   Economy

Eskom faces a lot of problems: it has had three chief executives since 2018, it is R396.3-billion in debt, its elderly power stations need constant maintenance, and it doesn’t have enough electricity to supply South Africa.It also has to deal with the fact that municipalities haven’t been paying for the power it supplies. By the end of March 2022, municipalities owed Eskom R44.8-billion.