内容摘要：A newly reopened railway line has attracted so many passengers that carriages may have to be added to trains to avoid people having to stand, a council said.

A newly reopened railway line has attracted so many passengers that carriages may have to be added to trains to avoid people having to stand, a council said.

"The looting that will take place is easy to imagine, yet too ghastly to contemplate. Just like ANC cadres looted [power utility] Eskom to the point of collapsing our electricity supply," he said.The parliamentary website identifies three main sources of funding:

The government has not spelt out how much people will have to contribute or how much will be required to fund NHI.Nevertheless, the explainer on the parliamentary website says the "cost of our health-care system, which is currently the most expensive in the world, will be reduced"."When people visit health-care facilities, there will be no fees charged because the NHI fund will cover the costs of people’s medical care in the same way that medical aids do for their members," it states.

The DA takes a different view, accusing the government of wanting to "tax to death" South Africans.It says the scheme will cost "well in excess of 200 billion rand [$10bn; £8.6bn] per year - with some estimates as high as one trillion rand".

The DA says it will institute legal action in a bid to stop the scheme being implemented.

It says it stands for universal health care, but the NHI will "destroy South Africa's private health-care system and thereby sabotage any chance of fixing our public health system".A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities said it would "continue to work with" the council "closely”.

. Instead, what happens if a council cannot balance its budget, is that its finance officer issues what is known as a Section 114 notice.This prevents the council from carrying out any new spending until it can balance its books again. It can mean councils then have to make cuts to non-statutory services to find savings.

Councils are required by law to produce a balanced budget and Havering, like other local authorities, has until early March to do that.Mr Morgon said the added spending pressures Havering had faced around social care and housing costs had made the financial situation more difficult.