The debt problem of municipalities to Eskom indicates the non-implementation of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs' (CoGTA's) Back to Basics programme. If the wheels of the programme were moving, some of the challenges - including this culture of non-payment of electricity bills - would have been removed, that is what the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on CoGTA, Mr Mzameni Mdakane, told Minister of CoGTA Mr Des van Rooyen and senior officials of CoGTA at Parliament recently.
"All the questions that the members of the Portfolio Committee on CoGTA and the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises (who were invited to attend the meeting) had asked would not have been asked had the Back to Basics programme been implemented," said Mr Mdakane.
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