Tshwane to prioritise “critical” payment of fuel suppliers
“The city is working on improving the financial situation and payment of fuel suppliers has been classified as one of the critical areas for prioritisation,” says metro spokesperson Lindela Mashigo.
The Tshwane metro will prioritise the critical payment of fuel suppliers to the metro which has been delayed due to financial constraints.
This was according to metro spokesperson Lindela Mashigo.
“The city is working on improving the financial situation and payment of fuel suppliers has been classified as one of the critical areas for prioritisation,” Mashigo said.
Mashigo said the city has a financial recovery plan (FRP) it continues to assess.
“As the financial situation improves, payments to suppliers will also improve,” he told Rekord.
He said dip readings are taken twice a day – in the morning and late afternoon – across all the city depots.
“The readings are shared with suppliers for them to plan the next delivery and this will help reduce shortages.”
Fuel deliveries are prioritised for depots that refuel vehicles for departments within the security and safety cluster, as well as service delivery departments that render critical services to the residents of the city.
“Measures have also been implemented wherein available fuel is rationalised [rationed] in the event of shortages,” Mashigo concluded.
Mashigo’s reassurances come after the Tshwane EFF called on the multiparty coalition to put strategic measures in place to avoid fuel shortages.
This follows reports of fuel shortages at the metro’s depots that might impact bus operations and other services.
“The recent shortages of fuel have a direct impact on disruption of essential services such as healthcare transport and waste management,” said regional chairperson Obakeng Ramabodu.
Ramabodu said that they are vehemently against the fuel shortages.
“We want the city to make sure that shortages don’t happen again because it negatively affects people’s livelihoods.”
In February, bus services were impacted by the fuel shortage.
“We are curious to see what the justification is this time around because the metro only offered feeble justifications for it,” Ramabodu added.
He stated that they were eager to learn how the metro intended to address this problem.
Ramabodu claimed that the metro used payment problems as its primary justification for not paying service providers for fuel.
Ramabodu said nothing functions under the multiparty coalition government in Tshwane.
“The 2022 auditor general’s report painted a bleak picture in the city’s administration,” Ramabodu claimed, adding that the report verifies that nothing is operating.
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