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The City of Cape Town’s proposed annual budget for the 2021/22 financial year, tabled at a special council meeting on Wednesday, has been slammed for alleged “acute contradictions”.
Ratepayers in Cape Town will be forking out more after the City of Cape Town tabled its proposed budget at a special council sitting.
MONEYWEB app instead? A little digging raises more questions than answers. By Chris Yelland 24 May 2021 10:30 Minister Gwede Mantashe. Image: GCIS The budget speech by Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe to Parliament on May 18, 2021 had journalists scratching their heads. What did the minister mean when he went off-script and said that âour research and our surveyâ of 10 000 people indicated that the market was not ready for a 50MW threshold above which a generation licence is required, and that a 10MW threshold would do? An article in Engineering News quoted Minist...
Nersa to oppose Eskomâs high court review application Share Cape Town - The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) announced on Monday that it will oppose Eskomâs High Court application to review its decision on the Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) and supplementary applications for the 2018/19 financial year. Nersa said it had resolved at a meeting on April 28 to oppose the application brought by Eskom to review and set aside its decision pertaining to the approval of a RCA balance of R13.271 billion for the 2018/19 financial year, and its decision to grant Eskomâs supplemen...
City of Cape Town says Table View infrastructure issues on its radar Share Cape Town - Following a number of complaints from residents of Table View and surrounds about the state of roads, water and the sewerage system in the area, the City said infrastructure in the area is on its radar. Mayco member for transport Felicity Purchase said: “Our teams are working around the clock to address the road maintenance backlog in Table View. Some of these backlogs relate to pothole repairs, road repairs following on from work done on burst water mains, as well as trench reinstatements. “The City’...