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Sakeliga asks Courts to establish a ”Special Master”
- Seeks independent control of electricity tariffs
South African business group, Sakeliga has approached the Court seeking the establishment of a Special Master. The Special Master will act independently of the Municipality ensuring the payment for electricity and other service charges. According to Sakeliga, the move became necessary with the constant failure of South Africa’s municipal governments to transfer payments for electricity and other services to Eskom and other service providers.
”After years of failure at all levels of government to intervene as they should have, we are now asking the court to order that the Special Master take control of the most important financial matters – those regarding water and electricity – until such time as National Treasury’s financial recovery plan has been properly implemented”, the group said.
”If we were to simply continue obtaining interdicts banning service interruptions by Eskom and water boards, then Eskom and those water boards would collapse financially, taking the whole fiscus with them”, says Piet Le Roux of Sakelliga.
Sakeliga says, its application forms part of the larger strategy for economic recovery in the country. The group has served papers on two municipalities in the North West region.