Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces the task of incorporating a credible debt-relief plan for the stricken state power utility in the national budget while stabilising government finances as record blackouts weigh on the economy.
Reducing Eskom’s liabilities will allow the loss-making company to raise funds to carry out plant maintenance and strengthen the power grid. But it will also add to the state’s overall debt burden of almost R5 trillion and to its debt-service costs, the fastest-growing expenditure line item for about a decade.
Record blackouts will complicate Godongwana’s efforts to convince markets that key fiscal metrics, including the budget gap and primary balance, will improve. The outages cost the country as much as R and have prompted the central bank to cut its 2023 economic growth forecast to 0.3% from 1.1%.
_Business How many debt relief Eskom received so far😯. This is like feeding a dead horse.
_Business People need to stop paying for this service they are not getting. Maybe when the money stops coming in the problems will disappear.
_Business eskomsalaryshedding , the highest paid sector in the country and they cannot fix a thing or keep it running let try this: stage 2,3,4 30% salary cut. stage 5,6,7 40% salary cut. see how quickly they fix this problem! Then governmentsalaryshedding
_Business Haybo where is this so called minister of electricity wena Flash/Thor you not doing your job babba wena moera wen
_Business eskomsalaryshedding , 40000 employees at Eskom that cannot fix anything so let's start Salary shedding stage 2,3,4 30% of their salary stage 5,6 40% of their salary and see how quickly the problem is fixed or no more load shedding then we start governementsalaryshedding
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