Question NW186 to the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure

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
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:

1. Agriculture reseach council
2. Agriculture, Forest and Fish
3. Arts and Culture
4. Companies & intelec prop commission
5. Centre for public service innovation
6. Communications
7. Coop govt and traditional affairs
8. Correctional Services
9. Defence
10. Energy
11. Environmental Affairs
12. Film & Publication Board
13. Financial and Fiscal Commission
14. Gender Equality Commission
15. Government Communications
16. Government Pension Fund Administration
17. Health
18. Higher Education
19. Home Affairs
20. Human Rights Commission
21. Human Settlements
22. Independent Police Investigative Directorate
23. Inter Relation and Coop (DIRCO)
24. Justice and Constitutional Dev
25. Labour
26. Military Vetarans
27. Minerals Resources
28. National Prosecuting Authorithy
29. National School of Government
30. National Treasury
31. Public Enterprises
32. Public Protector
33. Public Service and Administration
34. Public Service Commission
35. Public Works
36. Rural dev and land affairs
37. SA Police Services
38. SAMAF
39. SARS
40. SASSA
41. Science and Technology
42. SITA
43. Social Development
44. Sports and Recreation
45. Statistics SA
46. Tourism
47. Trade and Industry
48. Transport
49. Water Affairs
50. Woman and children