Sharpley, Gaster Gilbert2024-11-252024-11-252006-01Sharpley, G.G. (2006). Research Report. Alice. University of Fort HareN/Ahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/2598Masters ThesisIn 1995, the King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) municipality inherited an institution from the apartheid government created homeland that was in financial crisis, this entailed a fifteen million rand overdraft and a thirty two million rand outstanding account with the bulk electricity supplier, Eskom (KSD Municipality minutes, November 1995). In a bid to address the crisis, in 1997 the municipality engaged a private sector consortium called Umthiza Joint Venture to be the managing agent for the electricity supply to consumers.enTECHNOLOGY::Industrial engineering and economy::Industrial organisation, administration and economicsThesis