ConCourt rules Eskom cannot throttle power to two serial defaulting municipalities | Business

In a close five-to-four ruling on Friday, the Constitutional Court agreed with ratepayers in the two municipalities that the power utility erred in reducing its bulk electricity supply.

Unhappy ratepayers then took Eskom to court, arguing that they were unjustly being punished for the inability of their municipalities to pay Eskom. The ratepayers argued they had not been informed of the cuts, which often left them without power for over 10 hours a day. In August of 2020, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria found for the ratepayers and ordered the utility to restore"uninterrupted power" to both Lekwa and Ngwathe.

But a minority judgment, written by acting Justice Unterhalter, found that the ratepayers had failed to show that residents had a constitutional right to receive electricity from Eskom, rather than from their municipalities. The minority view also worried about what would happen if Eskom had to increase the amount of power it provided to all SA's indebted municipalities.

_Business And it took the high court to see this was wrong?! 😂😂😂😂

_Business So please explain how they are supposed to collect money if the muni does not pay

_Business Funds to ESKOM should be throttled

El123V _Business No why? Pay as you go, no pay no play it's basic economics.

_Business How is the pic and Eskom related🤔

_Business Isn't it also not legal for these municipalities not to pay? Putting the whole country under power pressure

_Business What now? Sounds like a bargain.

_Business Now even the highest court in the land has reinforced Saffers false sense of entitlement. This is not going to end well. Not for the courts, not for Eskom, not for the ANC & certainly not for our voters that vote for this unsustainable free for all

CeciliaMbatha3 _Business SA courts are just creches captured by the VMC, we don't take them serious anymore

_Business Thats the reason whe have Loadshedding

_Business Just like Zuma..etc let's talk up the minority judgement and take this on review....

_Business What utter crap. Cut the electricity off!!

_Business That is where the nonsense needs to stop, these cases don't belong there. The constitutional court must also put a punitive measure for those that allow that to happen. The residents must probably paid.

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