Question NW186 to the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
16 March 2020 - NW186
Kopane, Ms SP to ask the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
Cognisant of the decision taken by her department to devolve the payment of municipal services accounts to the user departments with effect from 1 April 2020, what (a) is the total amount that is currently owed by government departments to Eskom and (b) amount is owed by each government department to Eskom?
Reply:
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:
- Agriculture reseach council
- Agriculture, Forest and Fish
- Arts and Culture
- Companies & intelec prop commission
- Centre for public service innovation
- Communications
- Coop govt and traditional affairs
- Correctional Services
- Defence
- Energy
- Environmental Affairs
- Film & Publication Board
- Financial and Fiscal Commission
- Gender Equality Commission
- Government Communications
- Government Pension Fund Administration
- Health
- Higher Education
- Home Affairs
- Human Rights Commission
- Human Settlements
- Independent Police Investigative Directorate
- Inter Relation and Coop (DIRCO)
- Justice and Constitutional Dev
- Labour
- Military Vetarans
- Minerals Resources
- National Prosecuting Authorithy
- National School of Government
- National Treasury
- Public Enterprises
- Public Protector
- Public Service and Administration
- Public Service Commission
- Public Works
- Rural dev and land affairs
- SA Police Services
- SAMAF
- SARS
- SASSA
- Science and Technology
- SITA
- Social Development
- Sports and Recreation
- Statistics SA
- Tourism
- Trade and Industry
- Transport
- Water Affairs
- Woman and children