Some Cape Town residents are feeling the pressure of impending increases in electricity prices, which they say will have a devastating impact on their ability to survive and pay bills.
South Africans can expect to pay more for electricity come April after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa announced an 18.65% tariff hike for the 2023/24 financial year this week.
"It is complete nonsense that Eskom should ask this of us when we are now getting to the point of load shedding for eight hours a day. Now to make people pay even more, just does not make sense at all," added Govender. Macassar Ward 109 councillor Peter Helfrich added when he first heard about the decision, he was left in disbelief.
Siyasanga, a Grade 12 pupil from Langa, added matric would be tough this year as his family was already struggling to make ends meet.Natasha Pottier added the increase was unfair because the government was not providing the service that locals were being forced to pay for. They constantly need bailing out and now it becomes our problem. We need to fork out more money on food and even buy new appliances as unscheduled load shedding is known for causing appliances to break.
"I feel like Eskom, and everyone involved is not trying to find solutions but are implementing more problems and it's definitely a larger and bigger game that affects us the most," said Pottier. Recent University of Cape Town graduate Vuyisanani Qotoyi, 23, said her house would get less value for money.Here at home, the highest price we pay is R600, and in the past that used to get us 480 to 500 units of electricity, and now it only gets us 120 to 200 units. So, this increase means you will be paying a lot more for way less.
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