* *Ben Ngubane faces criminal charges* * OUTA has investigated Ngubane on a variety of matters arising from his tenure on the boards of Eskom and the...
* *E-toll operator earns 74% of total e-toll income** * * This is a clear indication of how irrational the scheme has become and what makes matters wo...
* *Bigger challenges ahead for civil society to fight electricity price hikes* * While OUTA agrees somewhat to the court ruling that it is NERSA’s rol...
* *No, no, no and no to tariff hikes - 24 times* * All the municipalities’ requests for higher-than-standard electricity price increases should be ref...
* *OUTA bars 55 SANRAL e-toll cases to value of R2 million* * In these cases brought against OUTA’s contributing supporters, SANRAL failed to follow l...
* *Molefe's reappointment at Eskom is a farce and will be challenged* * As far as we understand, Mr Molefe had resigned as the CEO for the sake of goo...
* *Gloves are off as OUTA files e-toll court papers* * Effectively, this becomes the “test case” which will highlight why OUTA believe the Gauteng e-t...
* *OUTA welcomes NERSA ruling on electricity tariff increase* * Besides the municipalities of Cape Town, Midvaal, Saldanha Bay, and Johannesburg’s Cit...
* *OUTA commends Minister Brown's cancellation of Molefe bonus* * “Ms Brown's reasons to decline the exorbitant payout make sense, as the board's moti...
* *OUTA calls off test case with SANRAL to advance public's fight to end e-tolls* * “We are tired of the delays which appear to have arisen through th...
* *OUTA trips Eskom’s predatory tariff hike* * Eskom had argued for the new higher tariff in order to encourage consumers to reduce consumption on day...
* *SANRAL’s e-toll default judgment is misleading and dangerous* * From the outset, it is important to note the matter which SANRAL is crowing about i...
* *SANRAL’s Default Judgement is deceptive and not a precedent* * This default judgment against a company in liquidation does not delve into the merit...
* *Sincere action absent by Makhura over failed e-tolls* * More revealing was the Premier’s statement “We can’t build roads and only later inform citi...
* *SANRAL’s decision on e-toll criminal charges whilst OUTA test case unfolds is wrong* * In addition, SANRAL plans to obtain default judgments agains...
* *Gauteng freeways inflated by R9,6bn: Ministers urged to investigate* * At the time, OUTA also conducted a high level costing exercise of the GFIP p...
* *OUTA seeks extension on comment period for critical energy gazette** * * OUTA not only questions the timing of the New Energy Efficiency gazette, b...
* *OUTA objects to flawed energy IRP public engagement process** * * While the Department of Energy (DOE) have given notice of the presentations to th...
* *Three years of e-toll failure* * The graph gives a timeline of SANRAL’s e-toll revenue levels. In April 2012, SANRAL argued in court that they woul...
* *SANRAL misleads SCOPA on their true financial situation* * SANRAL responded that the law (PFMA) does not simply allow them to write off such debt a...
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