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Ratepayers bear brunt of Eskom’s failures

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WITH all its issues of the corruption of the past, the firing of management, no proper records and hundreds of billions of rand from taxpayers’ money gone, the train just moves on and on without arrests.

Eskom strongly needs to look back and collect its money from non-payers who are using millions daily from illegal connection­s and installing illegal prepaid meters.

With Covid-19, ratepayers are also slammed by municipali­ties’ annual 6% to 8% increases, not forgetting on our daily transport fuel increase of R1.40 a litre. It’s a lose-lose situation for ratepayers.

FAROUK SALOOJEE | Rustenburg

 ?? Reuters African News Agency (ANA) ?? ELECTRICIT­Y pylons carry power from Cape Town’s Koeberg nuclear power plant. Eskom must start collecting arrears from non-payers. | MIKE HUTCHINGS
Reuters African News Agency (ANA) ELECTRICIT­Y pylons carry power from Cape Town’s Koeberg nuclear power plant. Eskom must start collecting arrears from non-payers. | MIKE HUTCHINGS

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