Switch off the lights to non-paying departments, municipalities - Malema to Eskom
29 February 2020
EFF leader Julius Malema has called on Eskom to switch the lights off at government departments and municipalities which owe the utility money.
Speaking at Megawatt Park before he handed over a memorandum of demands to Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, Malema said Eskom needed to switch off power to all municipalities and government departments which could not pay its debts.
He was speaking after the EFF marched kilometres in cold and rainy weather from Innesfree Park to Eskom's headquarters.
In December last year, Parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) heard that overdue debt owed to Eskom by municipalities increased by some R1.2bn in September to R26.4bn by the end of October, Fin24 reported.