The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure:
a) The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) pays for electricity on behalf of user departments for properties under the custodianship of the Department. The significant number of properties get electricity from Municipalities and few directly from Eskom.
The Department is therefore only able to confirm for accounts where payments are made to Eskom on behalf of client departments for settlement of Eskom accounts. (See List A below)
b) According to the debtors age analysis dated 17 February 2020 received from Eskom, the DPWI owes an amount of R7.2 million for DPWI and the client departments where the payments of municipal servies is under its custodianship as follows:
Less than 30 days |
30 + days |
Total |
919,454.66 |
6,316,741.36 |
7,236,196.02 |
The DPWI is in the process of validating and verifying the R7.2 million against its own records whilst continuing to pay invoices received for validated accounts.
Tabulated below is the rand value of payments made to Eskom and Municipalities in relation to Services. For Eskom it will be only for electricity, whereas for Municipalities, this will include electricity, water, sewerage and refuse services:
Municipal Expenditure 1 April 2019 to 31 January 2020 |
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Supplier type |
Municipal services |
Property Rates |
Grand Total |
Eskom |
473,644,667 |
- |
473,644,667 |
Municipalities |
2,581,190,340 |
727,408,713 |
3,308,599,054 |
Grand Total |
3,054,835,007 |
727,408,713 |
3,782,243,720 |
List A: