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North West municipality without electricity for 18 days, DA threatens Eskom with court action | News24

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The DA has approached an attorney regarding the electricity cuts in the Ditsobotla Municipality in the North West. | IamAlexSweet

The ailing municipality has been battling to pay for its utilities and owes Eskom an estimated R1 billion.But the DA's Leon Basson said many of the business owners in Lichtenburg pay the power utility directly because they know the municipality cannot pay for electricity services.

"The Constitutional Court upheld this ruling last year. A lot of the end users pay Eskom directly, and Eskom cannot hold residents liable because the municipality is not paying [the utility]." Only two major factories remain in the town, the Lafarge Cement factory and the AfriSam cement plant. These factories are bound to the area because they dig minerals from the ground.In its latest statement on Friday, the municipality said:

 

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