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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: Municipal Watch: Impact of non-electricity payment on municipalities
Description: For our Municipal Watch feature today we try to understand the impact of nonpayment of electricity to municipalities. Often Eskom threatens to cut-off power to municipalities that are in arrears with some owing billions. Yes many experts are calling for a better model to deal with the problem, but at the end it's still the consumers that need to pay.Some complain that the terrifs are too high and result in them stealing power, while others do pay, but feel that it's just too much. How then do make make people understand the impact this is having? To educate...