*Hooray, state action at last on Eskom and Transnet* ** This is long overdue. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes the new Special Inves...
*R286bn Eskom primary energy overspend* ** OUTA’s ongoing research and analysis of Eskom’s operational and capital expenditure costs has revealed that...
*Local Government Self Help* ** *What must a municipality do?* *A Municipality must:* • structure and manage its administration and budgeting and plan...
*NERSA allowed R85bn a year in Eskom runaway costs* ** The conduct of the National Energy Regulator for South Africa (NERSA) over the past decade, mor...
*Emfuleni residents need service delivery not politics* ** “The Provincial Executive has failed to enforce its mandate of oversight by holding ELM to ...
*It's the death of e-tolls* ** The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes the acknowledgment by Gauteng Premier David Makhura in his None [1]*...
* *New Board gives hope for Eskom turnaround* * “We welcome the change in leadership and especially the inclusion of experienced business, finance and...
* *State capture inquiry is late but welcome* * We believe that a judge of this stature will ensure that the inquiry will be handled with the appropri...
* *5.23% Eskom increase a bittersweet victory to South Africans* * This means the average price stays under R1/kWh. “This is a bittersweet victory for...
* *Insufficient change in new Eskom board* * The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) commends the two new appointments but is concerned about the re...
* *Minister's Energy Indaba is not consultation* * The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) strongly opposes the way this Indaba has been arranged an...
* *Municipal water bills need Gauteng intervention* * “South Africa’s Constitution provides for circumstances when municipalities are caught up in per...
* *OUTA demands 0% electricity tariff increase at NERSA public hearings* * This follows after Eskom applied to NERSA a 19.9% increase. “In our request...
* *Fix the public health sector before considering NHI* * According to Wayne Duvenage, OUTA’s Chief Executive Officer, the organisation believes that ...
* *SANRAL report indicates e-toll debt is hard to collect* * It also means that the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is likely to ...
* *Save our economy and give Eskom 0%* * “Eskom as it currently operates, cannot survive financially in any plausible future scenario and should be un...
* *OUTA finds NERSA approved secrecy on Eskom coal costs* * The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has discovered that the National Energy Regulato...
* *OUTA wants to see SANRAL's annual report* * It's not the only entity to have missed this deadline. “State-owned entities are crucial bodies providi...
* *E-toll update: Legal challenge is slowly progressing* * On one side, batches of text messages with debt collection warnings are repeatedly sent in ...
— September 2017
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