BUSINESS MAVERICK: Hey, sitting ducks: Eskom wants another R27-billion from you

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BUSINESS MAVERICK: Hey, sitting ducks: Eskom wants another R27-billion from you By Ferial Haffajee

Eskom appears set to earmark 2020 as the year in which it will fight to recoup its stratospheric losses from cash-strapped

Either way, the Eskom fight means it is gunning for increases of more than 20% over the medium to long term to stave off the death spiral it is in.that two petitions he had launched had attracted signatures from 330,000 consumers, but he warns that people need to do better to make their voices heard. Eskom has five million customers and a petition even of this size can be batted away when hearings for the R27-billion cost clawback begin around the country in February.

Eskom underspent on buying from independent power producers although the fightback faction spins a narrative that it is these costs which have bankrupted it. The utility budgeted R26-billion from the independents, but only spent R24-billion with them. Eskom claims that electricity is still too cheap in South Africa, but it uses dated studies by the World Bank to make these arguments.

 

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.'In its various applications, Eskom baulks at trimming staff numbers, which would be difficult because of a militant and well-organised trade union sector. But it wants to pile the misery on to consumers through higher tariffs. Organised business has raised the red flag..'

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