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Consumers should brace themselves for tougher times ahead after Nersa granted Eskom an electricity tariff hike of 18.65%. The approved hike is lower than the 35% that the power utility had applied for.

The tariff increase will be effective from the first of April this year

“We need to safeguard the need of the current and future users and we need to try and achieve efficient we need to try to achieve efficient, and effective and sustainable development of the electricity supply infrastructure. We need to facilitate investments both in the supply and the demand side we need to promote universal access to electricity. We need to promote competitiveness and customer and end user choice.

This means a consumer buying R1000 worth of electricity directly from Eskom will pay an extra R1.86. Kgadima says the increases are above inflation and would be a disaster for the economy

 

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How much rougher would they like thi gs to get?

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Trying to squeeze blood from a stone. We have nothing left to give. And wait, the reserve bank will be raising rates again this month

Increasing tariffs to 135% won't even help, every South African has a bigger role to play, not just pay!

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This is actually stage 8 10 hours of no electricity

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