Researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute Dr Tracey Ledger made these assertions after residents in Kimberley complained that they cannot afford to pay for services including water and electricity.
A number of households, some in the indigent register in Kimberley have had their electricity disconnected due to non-payment. This comes as Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana prepares to deliver his Budget Speech, Dr Ledger says indigent households are at the receiving end as more municipalities become dysfunctional.
“The indigent households only get 50 kwh per month and households use more electricity than that, so the problem is that the household needs 300 kwh of electricity every month to cover their needs and the indigent policy is only giving them 50 kwh. This is a huge problem because what we’ve got are poor households that have to have electricity to live to cook, to be able to do anything but they cannot do anything,” says Ledger.
They are scared to force people to pay for services because they are eyeing the next election at whatever cost to the economy as long as their stomachs and their families ones are full.
Municipal mismanagement means stealing the money aka irregular expenditure.
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