The medium-term budget policy statement will this week reveal how the government is going to deal with a shortfall in tax collection against its targets, writes Busisiwe Mavuso.
Results of actual work are starting to show, but there are powerful ANC forces opposed to economic reforms that limit state control over strategic assets
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told Pparliament that South Africa’s recent spate of stage 6 load-shedding occurred as a result of diesel supply constraints, but that the utility is preparing to bring 3,200MW of power on stream in the next three months.
While municipal debt owed by Eastern Cape municipalities to Eskom has more than doubled in two years, the Buffalo City Metro has assured its residents it will not default on its Eskom payments after revelations that it owes the power utility more than R300m.