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Constitutional Law expert Pierre de Vos says in terms of the legislation, municipalities are the primary distributors of electricity. He, however, says this is not exclusive.

In December, the power utility implemented Stage 6 causing uproar and forcing President Cyril Ramaphosa to cut short a state visit to Egypt.In December, the power utility implemented Stage 6 causing uproar and forcing President Cyril Ramaphosa to cut short a state visit to Egypt.

This is contained in an affidavit which he submitted at the weekend in a court case that the United Democratic Movement and 17 other parties have brought. He adds, “To what extent this is a constitutional obligation, because it is not explicitly written in the constitution that there is a right to electricity? That is open for debate.”

 

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CyrilRamaposa This is a low blow, even for our president. I thought you stole enough with phala phala. Where's the 1 billion we are paying to the municipality that should be going to eskom. No one answers, all this countries leaders do is avoid this and ask more questions

De Vos your talking bullshit.I am from MLM i get my electricity straight from Eskom

But who are the generators of such electricity? Is it there for distributors to distribute it ? 🤔

Where has he been ?

This is a veiled defence of Ramaphosa isn’t it?

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