*Gauteng Premiers intervention in Emfuleni smacks of planned political manipulation* ** The Constitution is clear that national, provincial and munici...
*Eskom must clean its house before it asks for more money*** According to Engineering News, Eskom is planning to approach the courts to have NERSA's 2...
*Billions lost in Local Government* ** The substantive increase in irregular expenditure by 75%, from R16,2bn to R28,3bn within local government can o...
*OUTA welcomes NERSA withdrawal of draft Small-Scale Embedded Generation Rules* ** The proposed SSEG rules were published for public comment by the Na...
*OUTA calls on NERSA to scrap draft rules* ** The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) initiated a petition, earlier this week, to ensure that the pu...
*OUTA announces Dr. Makhosi Khoza as head of OUTA's local government strategy * ** “Today, I am pleased to announce that Dr Makhosi Khoza has been app...
*OUTA boosts its energy sector portfolio* ** OUTA has recently appointed Mr Ronald Chauke as its Energy Portfolio Manager, who joins OUTA with a wealt...
*OUTA queries questionable budget items* ** Noted in its letter to the municipality, OUTA Local highlighted the budgeting of vehicles to the value of ...
*OUTA Local launches in Secunda* ** Over the years, Govan Mbeki Local Municipality has seen a decline in service delivery, leaving residents frustrate...
*Cool heads required to reposition Eskom to financial sustainability* ** First and foremost, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is very much aw...
*R286bn Eskom primary energy overspend* ** OUTA’s ongoing research and analysis of Eskom’s operational and capital expenditure costs has revealed that...
*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 ...
* *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...
* *OUTA demands 0% electricity tariff increase at NERSA public hearings* * This follows after Eskom applied to NERSA a 19.9% increase. “In our request...
* *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...
— October 2017
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