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Eskom then approached the highest court in the land arguing that it should not be compelled to provide the indebted municipalities with more electricity than provided for in the NMD agreements.On handing down the judgement, Justice Madlanga said the majority found the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal correctly granted interim interdicts against the parastatal prohibiting it from reducing the bulk electricity supply it previously supplied to municipalities.
“Ergo, the majority judgment determined that the balance of convenience unquestionably favours the residents; and, accordingly, would have the residents – purely on an interim basis – living lives that are as near as possible to wholesome, then subject them to the current ‘human catastrophe’, the court ruled.”
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