While government departments have three months to say how they will pay, the private-sector debtors will not have such reprieve.
"The municipalities must turn off the lights of those companies that are not paying. Switch it off. It's like DStv: if you don't pay your DStv, you get an error message and the screen just keeps moving until you pay.
National government departments owed R3.4bn, with the department of public works owing a whopping R3bn of that. Even in the provincial sphere, the provincial departments of public works, roads and transport are the biggest defaulters - owing R3.7bn of the total R5.8bn owed by provinces. They too will have to submit their individual payment plans.The department of public enterprises, of which Eskom is an entity, owes the company R13.2m.
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