Cumulative debt (rands) owed by municipalities to Eskom by financial year, from 2014

Created	February 13, 2025
Credit	Eskom Annual Reports
Category	Energy
Description	The cumulative amount in rands of debt South Africa's municipalities owe Eskom for electricity supplied by financial year, which is from 1 April to 31 March. Data starts in 2014 and is sourced from Eskom's annual reports.
Data rows	12
Headers	date page year source source_link municipal_debt, R municipal_debt_in_billions_of_rands

Data

date	page	year	source	source_link	municipal_debt, R	municipal_debt_in_billions_of_rands
2014-03-31	11	2014	Eskom Annual Report 2015	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/EskomAFS2015.pdf	2,600,000,000	3
2015-03-31	11	2015	Eskom Annual Report 2015	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/EskomAFS2015.pdf	5,000,000,000	5
2016-03-31	6	2016	Eskom Annual Report 2016	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Eskom_AFS_2017.pdf	6,000,000,000	6
2017-03-31	5	2017	Eskom Annual Report 2017	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Eskom2018AFS.pdf	9,400,000,000	9
2018-03-31	5	2018	Eskom Annual Report 2018	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Eskom2018AFS.pdf	13,600,000,000	14
2019-03-31	8	2019	Eskom Annual Report 2019	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/0004EskomAFS2019singles.pdf	19,900,000,000	20
2020-03-31	8	2020	Eskom Annual Report 2020	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/0005_Eskom-AFS-2020.pdf	28,000,000,000	28
2021-03-31	5	2021	Eskom Annual Report 2022	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_annual_financial_statements.pdf	35,300,000,000	35
2022-03-31	5	2022	Eskom Annual Report 2022	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_annual_financial_statements.pdf	44,800,000,000	45
2023-03-31	2	2023	Eskom Annual Report 2023	https://www.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Eskom_integrated_report_2023.pdf	58,500,000,000	59