Sakeliga instructed its attorneys to apply for joinder as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a court case in which the applicant, SALGA, asks for a declaratory order that municipalities enjoy an exclusive right to distribute electricity within their jurisdictions . Sakeliga is opposed to the proposition that municipalities enjoy such exclusive rights to be without exception a middleman in the supply and distribution of electricity.

Sakeliga also does not agree with the constitutionality of such a claim nor with SALGA’s interpretation of the Constitution and legislation, and will make submissions on it before the court. More important, however, is that the monopoly on electricity supply that SALGA wants to cultivate through court processes for municipalities could worsen the already precarious situation of end users in dilapidated municipalities where the municipalities currently simply do not pay Eskom.